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Digital India and Digital Divide: An Analytical Study

Dalvinder Singh Grewal

Abstract


There is a vast rich and poor divide in India. It is directly related to digital divide. Launching Digital India Prime Minister Modi spoke of elimination of digital divide. Can digital divide be eliminated without eliminating economic divide? This paper discusses this problem in the light of recently launched programme.

Keywords: Digital divide, economic divide, technologies, internet, mobile applications

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijocspl.v1i1.42

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