Indian PM Narendra Modi has made broadening inteet access in the country one of his priorities.
FacebookThe Indian govement, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has grown increasingly focused on bringing more people to the inteet, but the majority of the country's citizens are still offline.
Nearly one billion people in India are yet to coect to the inteet, according to a World Bank report.As of 2014, India's population was estimated to be around 1.3 billion, according to data from World Bank and US' Census Bureau.
The report added that the inteet adoption rate was high in govement firms, but low for small and medium-sized businesses.
With a wider adoption of the inteet, the World Bank says that India could see a major push in growth, job creation and general improvements in public services.
The report comes months after India's telecoms regulator baed Free Basics, Facebook's controversial initiative which aims to bring affordable access to select inteet services to less developed countries. At the time, privacy advocates in the country condemned Free Basics, noting that it was violating net neutrality, the principle of equal access to all types of content and services on the inteet.
That's not to say that the Indian govement hasn't done anything to bring coectivity to more people. In 2011, the govement initiated the National Optical Fibre Network project to provide broadband coectivity to over 200,000 villages in the country.
Though India is the country with the greatest percentage of its population being uncoected to the inteet, the World Bank report states that it still has the third largest amount of coected users in the world. It's beaten only by China and the US, for now.
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