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DoT launches 5G online certification course for the next-gen wireless broadband technology
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Last Updated: Mar 09, 2021, 07:49 PM IST
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The objective is to have “a team of master trainers, 5G security experts within the DoT,” who would formulate a roadmap for reinforcing education and awareness levels about 5G.
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The online 5G certification course for DoT staff will be conducted by National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation & Training (NTIPRIT), the telecom department’s training arm.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has set in motion plans to create an in-house pool of 5G experts and policymakers, by launching a 12-week online course to train and certify its officials on the next-generation wireless broadband technology, even as India braces for 5G.
New Delhi: Shri Anshu Prakash, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and Chairman Digital Communications Commission inaugurated today an online certification course on 5G Technology for Government Officers via Video Conferencing.The inaugural session was also addressed by Shri Bharat Kumar Jog, Member (Services), Digital Communications Commission and Sh. U.K. Srivastava, Senior Deputy Director General and Head of NTIPRIT and other senior government officials.
National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation and Training (NTIPRIT), the premier training institute of Department of Telecommunications, Government of India is conducting the first of its kind 36-hour (12 week) online 5G Certification Course to train and certify Officers of Government of India. To start with, this 36-hour certificate course on 5G has been made available to Officers of Department of Telecommunications with the first batch starting from 9th March 2021