State of India’s digital economy report 2023
The State of India’s Digital Economy (SIDE) Report measures and analyses India’s digital transformation using data, information and evidence that are specifically relevant to the Indian context. In this,
Telecommunication
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DoT imposes Rs 700 cr penalty on telcos for violating radiation norms
Claiming that radiation from most of telecom towers are within permissible limits, industry body COAI today said about 99 per cent of the Rs 700—crore penalty imposed on towers for violating norms is due
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Illegal mobile towers to be regularized
Civic Body Plans To Mop Up 25 Crore In Penalties By Levying Taxes On 1,250 Towers Pune: The vexed issue of taxing mobile towers located in the city is likely to be resolved as the standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday gave a green signal to penalise illegal towers and regularise them. The committee expects collect Rs 25 crore from the drive.
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Citizens can check cell tower radiation
Hyderabad: Citizens will soon be empowered to verify whether the radiation emission levels emanating from cellphone towers in their locality are within permissible limits. With no scientific study available yet in the world confirming that cell towers are health hazards, and apprehensions among people about living near such towers increasing, the state government is coming out with a set of guidelines to do a balancing act.
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Human Rights body seeks inquiry into health hazard by mobile towers
The West Bengal Human Rights Commission directed the State’s Pollution Control Board here on Thursday to inquire into complaints by residents of a multi-storey building in the city’s Park Street area claiming they are facing health hazards due to installation of mobile phone towers on the roof of the building. Residents of Karnani Mansion on Park Street had registered a complaint with the Commission this past week. “We have directed the Pollution Control Board to conduct an inquiry by a competent authority and submit a report to us within three weeks,” West Bengal Human Rights Commission joint secretary Sujay Kumar Haldar told The Hindu .
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Special rules to set up cell phone towers
BHUBANESWAR: The state government has asked the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) to finalize special regulations for installation of telecom towers in Bhubaneswar and other urban areas in the state within 15 days. State housing and urban development (H&UD) secretary Injeti Srinivas, while reviewing the progress of the proposed regulation on February 28, has asked the BDA to expedite the finalization so that it can be sent to the H&UD for vetting and subsequent approval.
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Private telecom towers okay, but where are the rules?
Almost 15 years after the Karnataka Urban Development Department issued a circular to the municipal bodies in the State to frame rules for installing private telecom towers on residential and commercial buildings, the Karnataka Directorate of Municipal Corporations (KDMC) has now suddenly woken up to frame the rules, including on radiation levels emanated from a tower. The directorate is in the process of framing the draft rules, which will be sent to the Additional Chief Secretary for approval. The State government initiated the process of framing the draft rules following the Centre’s direction to the Urban Development Department.
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Central Delhi's rich say no to mobile towers
NEW DELHI: Fear of radiation is leading to mobile towers being shut in the richest localities of central Delhi, a trend that's likely to affect connectivity in the heart of Lutyens Delhi. On Monday, a mobile tower at Aurangzeb Road was dismantled and operations of two towers at Amrita Shergill Marg were halted, claim cellular operators. With two towers at Tata Sadan to be switched off on February 28, cellular operators say, connectivity is going to be severely affected in this exclusive enclave.
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‘Municipalities, state governments should not say cellphone towers are unsafe’
P VAIDYANATHAN IYER Investments slowed down because of uncertainty and it happens a lot with telecom companies. What is your take on the issue? md:The telecom sector saw a much different issue from the
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‘Telecom tower regulations should be more stringent’
The Directorate of Municipal Administration’s (DMA) latest regulations on mobile phone towers have not gone down well with some quarters, which feel that the department should have come out with more stringent rules to check the mushrooming of such towers. The DMA, in its order, has observed that telecom towers are a threat to the environment, human beings, birds and animals and, therefore it was issuing a set of regulations.
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No mobile towers near schools, hospitals: Govt
Municipal Administration Commissioner P Ravi Kumar has directed all deputy commissioners to conduct a survey of mobile towers coming under their jurisdiction and shift such towers which are in violation of the guidelines issued by the Department of Telecommunication. In a recent letter to the Deputy Commissioners, copies of which were released to the media on Monday, Ravi Kumar has stated that the move is to protect human beings, birds and animals from the hazards of mobile tower radiations.