DoT To Issue Orders After Consulting Handset Makers
New Delhi: Mobile companies will now have to list out the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) levels of different handsets to the buyers.

Calls For Ban On Unsafe Handsets
New Delhi: Radiation from mobile phones and towers poses serious health risks, including loss of memory, lack of concentration, disturbance in the digestive system and sleep disturbances, according to an inter-ministerial committee formed by the ministry of communications and information technology to study the hazards posed by mobile phones.

The committee has

NEW DELHI: Expressing serious concern over high-level of electromagnetic radiation from mobile towers and handsets, a high-level inter-ministerial committee has called for revision of radiation norms to suit to Indian conditions and environment.

Silence by the government agencies and no clear word on the health issues due to cell phone towers, residents of IC Colony, Borivli have objected to one coming in the neighbourhood.

They do not want a cell tower unless the government comes out with a clear policy and adverse health effects because of it.

Illegal communication towers in the Mohali urban estate are under threat.

Acknowledging the public health concerns on radiation from telecom towers, an inter-ministerial committee has recommended restrictions on these towers being set up in residential areas.

Operators who have failed to produce self-certificate will be penalised
Concerned over recent scientific reports on the harmful effects of radiation from mobile towers, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has decided to take stern action against erring operators. The DoT is now planning a crackdown on over one lakh towers that have failed to self-certify towers on radiation levels.

In view of apprehensions among people about the radiation levels of cellular towers, the Telecom Regulation and Monitoring (TERM) cell has commenced the testing process in rural and urban areas.