In 2016, the United Nations condemned internet access disruption as a human rights violation. Despite this, governments across the world have been shutting down citizens’ access to the web with impunity. The upshot is a huge economic loss. A UK-based digital privacy and security research group, Top10VPN, noted in its report titled Global Cost of Internet Shutdowns that in 2020, internet shutdowns in India cost the economy $2.8 billion, almost double compared with 2019. This pushed India to the highest-rank among the 21 South Asian countries that curbed internet access last year. India restricted internet use more than any other nation, with 8,927 hours of blacked out or curbed bandwidth access during the year
— source thewire.in | 06/Jan/2021