Prime Minister Narendra Modi awarded a 5G use case lab to Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad during the inaugural session of the seventh edition of the India Mobile Congress on Friday.
A total of 100 such labs were dedicated to various institutes of higher education as part of the “100 5G Labs Initiative” of the Department of Telecommunications.
Apart from BSNL officials, about 600 students and teachers from engineering colleges in and around Palakkad and Coimbatore attended the function held at IIT Palakkad.