Digital Movement, Implications on Sustainable Development in Post Pandemic Time: An Introspection with Special Reference to India

The chapter is an attempt to bring out the potential reverberation of the digital movement being noticeable in developing and less developed countries, as well, (with special emphasis on India) in the recent time, as a drive toward making themselves adaptive with the fourth industrial revolution or to put it more precisely, a stride for keeping themselves buoyant against the wave a largely disruptive technological transition. As against this backdrop, the primary focus of this chapter remains on elucidating the plausible implication of this technological revolution on distributive justice in as much is fundamental to sustainable development. At the outset, the paper presents a statistical illustration of the how ongoing revolution in India has created a condition of inequality or, more eminently saying, a ‘Digital Divide’ which has become poignant post the outbreak of the pandemic. Besides the paper developing a general equilibrium model in line with (Jones in J Polit Econ 73:557–572, 1965; Jones in Trade, balance of payment and growth by Jagadish Bhagwati, Ronald Jones, Robert Mundell and Jaroslav Vanek, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1971) with some modifications required to contextualize it for the developing and less developed nations to provide a well-grounded theoretical into the fallout of this digital revolution, which goes in much affinity with the famous notion of backwash effect (Myrdal 1957). The study concludes that the inception of digital revolution or movement as big shot technological transition is a significant threat to distributive justice, which seems to be true, particularly true, for a developing country or less developed one with preponderance of semi-skilled or low-skilled workers in labour force, so far labour is displacing character is concerned.