Digital Empowerment of Tea Tribe

The tea tribes of Assam are 65-lakh people who are descendants of Adivasis largely from the Chotanagpur region in present-day Jharkhand brought by the British Raj as indentured labourers in the mid-nineteenth century. Over the years, the plight of the tea community has been largely documented. The socio-economic and political vulnerabilities faced by the tea tribe of Assam needs no introduction. But the globalized 21st century and the recent coronavirus pandemics have brought in the importance of a digitalized world. However, the digital exclusion that the tea community of Assam faces has hardly been mentioned or documented.

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