India’s Telecom Secretary Anshu Prakash yesterday inaugurated an online certification course on 5G technology for his colleagues even as the country prepares adoption of the new technology.

This is first of its kind 36-hour (12 week) course to train and certify government officials in 5G technology.

The inaugural session was also addressed by Bharat Kumar Jog, Member (Services), Digital Communications Commission and U.K. Srivastava, Senior Deputy Director General and Head of

National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation and Training (NTIPRIT).

While formally launching the 5G certification course, Prakash, congratulated NTIPRIT on launch of this course and said that this would act as a capsule programme for learning overall 5G technology from the perspective of policy making.

Secretary Prakash highlighted the importance of exploiting the potential of 5G  and that the new tech would lead the way to machine-to-machine communications and Internet of Things