New norms to keep mobile towers off schools, hospitals
School and hospital premises would soon be out of bounds for mobile phone towers, the installation of which would now be governed according to international norms. The Government has adopted a new set of guidelines for limiting the exposure of human beings to electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones and their base stations. The new guidelines ask telecom companies to avoid installing base stations in schools or hospital premises because children and patients are more susceptible to electromagnetic fields.