Imagine a poor daily wage worker named Mahesh living in a remote village in Uttarakhand. During the COVID- 19 pandemic, the government made vaccination registration mandatory through the online portal CoWIN. He neither had a smartphone nor any internet connection. He was also digitally illiterate and unable to understand the online registration process. As a result, he could not book a vaccination slot in time. This shows how the digital divide can directly affect the right to life. The digital age has been welcomed as a revolutionary period in India, promising increased access to information, services, and opportunities. However, technological advancement has not been evenly distributed among India’s social strata. The digital divide, the disparity between those who have access to digital resources and those who do not [1], raises serious constitutional and philosophical concerns. Ambedkar’s concept of distributive justice went beyond legal equality, emphasising the material and functional competence of oppressed groups to engage as equals in social and economic affairs. In the contemporary period, digital accessibility has emerged as a new source of social power, defining one’s capacity to access education, e-governance, welfare programs, financial inclusion, and dignified livelihoods. This research aims to critically investigate the digital gap as a modern form of structural inequality and determine if current technology policies are consistent with Art. 21 of the Constitution by using doctrinal method. It also investigates if digital empowerment programs actually enable distributive justice or only recreate existing hierarchies in a digital form.