Department of Telecom, Ministry of Communications and Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) have signed a MoU to develop a Broadband Readiness Index (BRI) for Indian States and Union Territories (UT).
This index will appraise the condition of the underlying digital infrastructure and related factors at the State/UT level.
The index will include indicators such as percentage of households using computers/ laptops with internet connection, percentage of households with fixed broadband connection, internet users as a percentage of the population, smartphones density, percentage of households with at least one digitally literate member, etc.
