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 User Ministries/departments to identify the potential use cases which can be implemented by 5G technology:
- Ministry of Power
- MoHUA
- Department of Science and Technology
- MoH&FW (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare)
- MoA&FW (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare)
- MeitY
- Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- 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
5G Vertical Engagement Partnership Program (5G-VEPP)
The Department of Telecommunications has invited Expression of Interest (EoI) from the industry to promote closer collaboration of “User Verticals” with 5G Tech stakeholders (Service providers, Solution providers & partner OEMs), which can trigger a multiplier effect to try & finetune the digital solutions in respective economic verticals. In order to give fillip to the 5G usecase development program, DoT in co-ordination with other Ministries & State Government departments, Start-up Hubs, would facilitate Use case prototyping/pilots/Demos/ Trials at the User or Vertical industry premises, which have potential to foster partnerships to speedup successful commercial deployments and technology adoption.
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