The document analyzes census data from 2011 to understand digital inclusion in rural areas of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It finds that internet usage is much lower in rural areas of both states, around 1-2% of households, compared to urban areas. Mobile phone ownership is more widespread at around 70-80% of rural households. Key factors affecting lower rural internet usage include lack of infrastructure, education levels, economic conditions, and distance from urban areas. The document identifies specific villages in each state that have no connectivity access to target for improving digital inclusion.

1. DIGITAL INCLUSION
In Rurals of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh

2. What does census 2011 say about
digital inclusion ?
 The purpose of the analysis is to understand the reach of digitization into the
rurals of States of Himachala and Uttarakhand and to learn the infrastructural
facilities / social indicators those affecting the rural part from urban areas.
 Data (2011 Census) sourced from below :
 Percentage of Households to Total Households by Amenities and Assets (India & States/UTs - Sub-District
Level) Link to source data.
 Percentage of Households to Total Households by Amenities and Assets (India & States/UTs - Village and Ward
Level) Link to source data.
 Population Enumeration Data ( A series including PCA) Link to source data.
 District Census Handbook (Village Amenities) Link to source data .

3. Significant difference in Usage of Digital
Measures in Rural and Urban area
• Picture shows the graphical
analysis of difference in
usage of digital measures
in Urban and Rural parts of
Himachal.
• We can see here , a vast
difference in usage of
internet and
computer/laptops ,
whereas no measure
difference in mobile usage.

4. Descriptive Statistics
Rurals of Himachal Pradesh
 Only 1.34% households in villages use internet facility.
 3.99% of households use computer/laptops without internet.
 72.84% households of villages use mobile.
 53.31% of households in rural parts do not use internet.
 Out of such households, almost 60% have no laptop and almost 2% have neither laptop nor
mobile. Hence for rest of households if the infrastructure is built, they can avail internet
facility via mobile/ laptop.
 Below are the key factors affecting the internet usage, and which are almost equal to the urban
part. Hence the infrastructure and awareness of the internet usage need to be promoted for better
usage of internet in rural parts of Himachal.
Variable Population
Mean
Internet =
0 Mean
light_electricity 95.78 94.92
pct_literate 72.24 70.73
power_supp_for_dom_use_in_hrs 48 48
household_condition_tot_good 69.37 67.02
household_condition_tot_liv 28.79 31.00
household_condition_tot_dil 1.82 1.96
two_wheeler 17.01 11.62
four_wheeler 5.63 4.17

5. Continued…
 266 villages in Himachal Pradesh have zero mobile usage.
 Key reason behind this is the high usage of landline (32%) than that of in urban part
(8.44%).
 Out of these non-mobile usage villages, 68% villages are under mobile coverage.
Rest 32% of villages neither have landline/pco/internet café services nearby.

6. 0% Vs 100% Internet Usage Villages
(Himachal)
• Picture shows the districtwise
distribution of 0% and 100%
usage of internet in
Himachal.
• Kangra , Mandi, Shimla and
solan have the most no of
zero internet usage villages as
well as the same districts
have 100% internet usage
villages.
• Overall factor affecting is the
availability of all
assets,economic condition,
marital status (internet usage
more when marital status is
unmarried) and availability of
house as rented.

7. 0% Vs 100% Mobile Usage Villages
(Himachal)
• Picture shows the districtwise
distribution of 0% and 100%
usage of mobile in Himachal.
• We see here, Mandi has
highest number of 0 mobile
usage villages (73) whereas
Shimla and solan have highest
number of 100% mobile usage
villages ( 349 and 316
respectively).
• Factors affecting the mobile
usage includes banking ,
usage of radio, television ,
telephone electricity, literacy
, general economic condition.

8. Significant difference in Usage of Digital
Measures in Rural and Urban area
• Picture shows the
graphical analysis of
difference in usage
of digital measures
in Urban and Rural
parts of
Uttarakhand.
• We can see here , a
vast difference in
usage of internet
and
computer/laptops ,
whereas no measure
difference in mobile
usage.

9. Descriptive Statistics
Rurals of Uttarakhand
 Only 0.8% of villages have internet facility. Out of these, in more than 70%
villages people do use laptops/computer. And more than 80% people do have
mobiles.
 Key factors contributing towards high usage of digital measures are as below.
 Good social and economic conditions.
 Presence of key infrastructure like electricity.
 High connectivity using public/private transport e.g. Bus, Personal 4 Wheeler
 Presence of banking services
 High % of TV assets contributing to significant social awareness,
 The absence of internet café.
 High presence of mobile tower within the villages

10. Continued…
 79.8% villages has no internet connection, however 96.8% of these village has
either laptop or mobile so if the relevant infrastructure has been built for
them then there is a scope that they can use the internet via
mobile/laptop/computer.
 There are 24 villages which do not have any telephone/landline(in or within 5
km of the village)/pco/internet/internet café (in or within 5 km of the
village), so this should be primary list of villages which might need immediate
attention for digital inclusion.

11. 0% Vs 100% Internet Usage Villages
(Uttarakhand)
• Picture shows the districtwise
distribution of 0% and 100%
usage of mobile in
Uttarakhand.
• We can see here Pithorgarh
and Tehri Garhwal have the
most no of zero internet
usage villages as well as the
same districts have 100%
internet usage villages.
• Overall factor affecting is the
availability of all
assets,availability of house as
owned and telephone usage .

12. 0% Vs 100% Mobile Usage Villages
(Uttarakhand)
• Picture shows the districtwise
distribution of 0% and 100%
usage of mobile in
Uttarakhand.
• We see here, Pithorgarh has
highest number of 0% mobile
usage villages (89) whereas
Pithorgarh and Tehri Garhwal
and Chamoli have highest
number of 100% mobile usage
villages.
• Factors affecting the mobile
usage includes banking ,
usage of radio, television ,
telephone electricity, literacy
, general economic condition.

13. Himachal and Uttarakhand Statistics
(Usage of digital measures in Urban parts)
• Picture shows the
graphical
differences of usage
of digital measures
in urban parts of
Uttarakhand and
Himachal Pradesh.
• We see the similar
statistics in both the
states.

14. Himachal and Uttarakhand Statistics
(Usage of digital measures in Rural parts)
• Picture shows the
graphical
differences of usage
of digital measures
in rural parts of
Uttarakhand and
Himachal Pradesh.
• We see digitization
in rural parts of
Himachal a little
more than that of
Uttarakhand..

15. Further Reading ….
 Some interesting facts in Himachal Villages .
 Some interesting facts in Uttarakhand Villages .

16. Tools and Technologies
 All analysis has been done in SAS using below tools
 WPS/SAS University/SAS on Demand
 Visualization has been created using
 Spotfire/Tableau
 To represent all analysis a web-link has been created which is then integrated with
tableau and Spotfire public to embed the visualization using SSO (Single Sign on).
 Link of the Visualization is
 Himachal Visualization
 Uttarakhand Visualization
 Link of the website that integrate all visualization is
 https://digital-inclusion-8bdc7.firebaseapp.com/

17. Our team !!!
 Sampada Talwalkar (Sampada.diwan@gmail.com )
 Swarupa Patra (Swarupa.net@gmail.com)
 Arnab Roy (arnabitsme@gmail.com)
 Bijay Pal (Bijay_87@yahoo.co.in)
THANKS !!!!