2022: Just another year

Credit card usage has dropped because many have realised the futility of overspending

With reference to Nivedita Mookerji’s column, “The promise of 2022” (November 16), government departments revel in producing statistics and counter-statistics. The ground reality is different from either.

The Indian economy is a diverse one — from below the poverty line (BPL) families to among the wealthiest in the world. Many in the BPL category do not even own computers, leave alone smartphones. Many of them, especially those living in remote villages, lack proper access to basic amenities. Technology can become a social asset only when there is easy accessibility to it and adequate knowledge about it among all sections of society. 

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