This is the second SME Council set up by Facebook globally, the first one being in the US.
Globally, more than 45 million small businesses actively use Facebook Pages to connect to their consumers. The group will meet throughout the year to discuss new ideas, share feedback and work with Facebook to build better ads solutions.
"babajob.com, a job site in India which uses Internet.org's Free Basic Services app has had 60,000 people visit the site and over 10 per cent of them apply for jobs online. This means that 6,000 people who were once unconnected now have an opportunity to apply for a job,' said Facebook's chief operating officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg in her post.