Xiaomi India will double the number of Mi Stores in India to 20,000 and generate employment for more than 10,000 individuals over the next two years.
The company will also invest Rs 100 crore in Mi Retail Academy for special support to entrepreneurs.
The Mi Retail Academy will provide hands-on training and skill development to fresh entrepreneurs and the existing retailers on how to set up the store and manage finances, technical knowledge about the product and services and soft skills required to run a successful business.
The entire Mi Retail Academy will be done purely by the Mi India retail team in which there are two parts – online and offline. In the online component it will put a learning management system integrated into the app, and depending on where they are on their learning life cycle, they will have access to adaptive learning modules.
For offline, it will hold offline sessions such as boot camps to help answer all their queries.
As part of the expansion plan, the company will also add more ‘Mi Store on Wheels (MiSOW)’ from just one in Chhattisgarh right now.