5G Inter-Ministerial Committee on Use case Labs and Applications: An inter-ministerial committee has been formed by DoT in November 2021 to establish usage labs and make them available to the development community to exploit the benefits of 5G technologies to channelize and synergize industry, academia competencies into market solutions. In this regard, DoT is co-ordinating with following 19 potential User Ministries/departments to identify the potential use cases which can be implemented by 5G technology:
- Ministry of Power
- MoHUA
- DST
- MoH&FW (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare)
- MoA&FW (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare)
- MeitY
- MoE
- Ministry of Mines
- Ministry of Railways
- Ministry of Jal Shakti
- Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways
- Ministry of Heavy Industries
- Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
- Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Department of Commerce);
- Ministry of Coal
- Ministry of Tourism
- Department of Youth Affairs, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
- Department of Sports, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
- Director General of Mines Safety