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Digitising the World's Biggest Democracy

As access to the internet increases in India, Shruti Menon travels across the country to assess the challenges that come with trying to connect millions of people together.

Seven years ago, only 19% of India's 1.3 billion people had access to the internet. That figure now stands at over 60%. It's all part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aim to make India a trillion-dollar digital economy. The BBC's Shruti Menon has travelled across the country, assessing the challenges that come with trying to connect millions of people together and exploring how lives have been transformed.

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Sun 17 Jul 202219:10GMT

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