lucknow state government is set to launch a 5g technology training programme under the skill development mission to train youth in new technologies that will help them become employable in the future the government will also help in the placement of the trainees a government spokesperson said that with up encouraging investment in telecom sector there would soon be a major requirement of trained manpower for this sector chief minister yogi adityanath he said believes 5g technology will transform the entire telecom ecosystem of hardware software and services which is critical for the execution of other future technologies such as iot m2m communication and edge computing therefore it is most important to provide training in this field as per the plan a minimum of 1000 candidates have to be trained and provided jobs under the programme over next eight months the government has identified eight districts for its rollout out of which five will be taken up in the first phase the eight districts include lucknow kanpur gautam budh nagar moradabad agra gorakhpur varanasi and prayagraj