The community faces key access challenges – Access to information, schemes, entitlements, services, skills, alternative livelihood, newer opportunities. In this fast developing 21st century, digitalization has become the
utmost priority and the newest trend. The recent COVID pandemic added new dimensions to the paradigm shift from a “Manual World” to “Digitalized World”. The Tea Tribe and Adivasi community already facing economic and social exclusion, now faces a new exclusion: – The Digital Exclusion. Meaningful digital access in connectivity, information and services, and digitalization has become a living necessity, is a major access challenge for the community.