Digital Injot (Light): Tea Tribe and Adivasi Community Empowerment in Assam (India) in a Digital Age

The Tea Tribe & Adivasi community residing in the tea gardens constitute 20% of Assam’s population in India. They have been brought to Assam during the colonial rule. Today, the community produces 53% of India’s total tea production, and is the country’s second largest tea producing state. The community in the Tea Gardens have been facing challenges in accessing better living conditions, better heath infrastructure, minimum and equal wages and better education infrastructure. In this fast developing world digitalization has become the utmost priority. The recent COVID pandemic added new dimensions to the paradigm shift from a manual world to digital world. The community which already is facing political, social and economic exclusion, now faces a new exclusion – Digital Exclusion. Access to internet and digital information is becoming a major challenge for the community.

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