dPronto partners with Snapdeal to provide last mile logistics

dPronto has announced a tie-up with online marketplace Snapdeal to offer last mile delivery services across India, starting with Delhi-NCR. The partnership will help Snapdeal expand its same day delivery offering to a larger customer base across the country.

Under the new arrangement, dPronto’s delivery staff will pick up packages from Snapdeal’s sellers or fulfilment centres and deliver to customers on the same day the order is placed.

Currently, Snapdeal’s success rate for same day deliveries is 90%.

Rajiv Sharma, Managing Director and Co-Founder of dPronto, said: “We are excited about providing last mile logistics services to Snapdeal starting with Delhi-NCR. We are confident that this partnership will scale rapidly to reach many additional towns and thereby help in transforming the lives of underprivileged youth in those towns.”

dPronto said that it will be using its group company Empower Pragati to train and hire logistics staff.

Empower Pragati is a training partner of National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), a public private partnership in India which helps to secure vocational training for underprivileged youths.

According to dPronto, Empower Pragati has skilled over 100,000 underprivileged youths in India since its inception in 2010 with a target to train 2 million youths by 2020.

Ashish Chitravanshi, Vice President, Operations at Snapdeal, commented: “dPronto’s initiative of empowering the less privileged youth by making them employable is highly commendable. We are excited to be partnering with them to further strengthen our last mile delivery capabilities as we remain committed to our promise of catering to every customer in every pin code.”