Internet shutdown cost India ₹6,000 crore in a year

Internet shutdown, caused due to six categories of disruptions, cost India's GDP ₹6,000 crore between July 2015 and June 2016, according to Brookings Institution, a non-profit public policy organisation. The internet disruptions included the shutdown of mobile internet in Rohtak for a week in February 2016, costing India's GDP $190 million. The phenomenon cost $2.4 billion in GDP globally.