Women in rural India are driving up internet usage as they use their smartphones for work, entertainment, and information. Gaon Connection tries to find out what do the rural women in Uttar Pradesh exhaust their internet data packs for.

Mobile phone addiction among children is becoming common in the rural parts of the country where users of the internet have overtaken their urban counterparts. Village children spend several hours a day hooked to games like PUBG. This has serious repercussions, warn psychologists.

According to data collected from a sample of 4,994 households from 284 villages in 53 Integrated Tribal Development Programme blocks, the Adivasi regions in Jharkhand and Odisha show much lower access to mobile networks than the national average. The tribal women in these regions are the most disadvantaged.