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No Coercive Action For Now, Accept Applications For New Towers' In an interim order on Monday , the Bombay high court prohibited the state government and local authorities from taking any coercive action against cellphone towers atop schools, colleges and hospitals across Maharashtra.The HC also directed the authorities to accept …
Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring cells are part of the vigilance and monitoring wing of the DoT Random testing of more than 10,500 mobile towers across Gujarat did not find a single case of violation of radiation norms by the towers, said a senior official of Telecom Enforcement, Resource and …
Citizen groups, which have been advocating for safer cellphone tower norms in the city, have written to BMC’s chief engineer in charge of development plan, urging him to initiate immediate action to vacate the stay order of the Bombay High Court on the removal of illegal towers so that the …
Here’s some good news for those concerned about radiations from telecom towers. The Centre has fixed the Electro-Magnetic Radiation (EMR) emission levels below 0.45w/m2, which is one-tenth of the norms (4.5w/m2) fixed by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This way India ranks among the countries with lowest emission levels. This …
Nearly every other school in Israel is exposed to excess levels of cancerous electric radiation, it was revealed during a discussion of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Tuesday. The discussion was held in collaboration with Life and Environment - The Israeli Union of Environmental NGOs as …
NAVI MUMBAI: A group of residents of sector 17, Vashi, are demanding the removal of mobile towers from the node. Concerned about possible health hazards caused by exposure to radiation, six residents from the sector are making rounds of various societies to convince residents not to install cell towers atop …
The Kerala cell of the department of Telecom has conducted physical testing of over 7,000 base transceiver stations and all of them were found to be compliant The Kerala cell of Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring (TERM), working under the department of Telecommunications, has given a clean chit to base …
The Kerala cell of Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring (TERM), under the Department of Telecommunications, has given a clean chit to Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs), popularly known as cell phone towers, in respect of compliance to radiation norms. The Kerala cell conducted physical testing and verification of over 7,000 BTSs …
Thiruvananthapuram: Radiation from mobile towers is not only taking a toll on human health but is also blamed for sparrows vanishing into thin air. An environmental science expert team — led by Sainudeen Pattazhy — attributes the disappearance of sparrows to the electromagnetic fields and radiation effects created by mobile …
Telecom Secretary MF Farooqui has asked Maharashtra to bring its proposed cell-tower radiation rules in line with the telecom department’s guidelines as otherwise it would hurt the development of the sector in the state. The Department of Telecommunications in last August asked all states not to put any restrictions on …
Taking objection to the state cellphone tower policy that bans installation of base station antennae within the three-metre radius of schools, colleges and hospitals, the Telecom Enforcement Resource & Monitoring (TERM) Cell of Department of Telecommunications (Mumbai circle) has written to the Urban Development Department (UDD) stating it was not …
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) informed the Kerala High Court on Thursday that a detailed study on the effect of mobile tower radiation on human health could be undertaken jointly by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and NEERI. In a statement, the NEERI said the …
The damning report of a government appointed panel against IIT professor Girish Kumar, whose studies activists have been quoting in their battle against the unregulated mushrooming of cell towers, has become a major embarrassment for anti-radiation activists here. This came as the civic improvements committee cleared the mobile tower policy …
In a major deviation from its earlier stand, which had said no cellphone towers within 100 m of schools and hospitals, the improvements committee of the BMC Tuesday approved its new cellphone tower policy, albeit with three major amendments. An October 3, 2013, urban development department (UDD) notice had proposed …
There is no cause of alarm with regard to possible ill-effects on human health by electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation from cellphone towers and cellphones because the limits adopted in India account for all biological effects of radiation. In fact, the limits set by India are much lower than the internationally …
The Government should allot funds to study the health effects of prolonged exposure to mobile phones in the Indian context, according to a panel. The committee, set up to look into electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation issues on orders of the Allahabad High Court, has recommended the Department of Science and …
The World Health Organisation has asked India to participate in its electromagnetic field (EMF) projects, as myths about the impact of mobile phone tower radiation on public health are widespread in the country. The advice came from Mike Repacholi, former head of the EMF Task Force at WHO, during his …
Impact of telecom towers on human health - Question raised in Rajya Sabha, 06/02/2014. The Minister Of State in the Ministry Of Communications And Information Technology has stated that "DoT adopted the EMF radiation limits prescribed by ICNIRP in 2008 which was further reduced to 1/10th of the safe limit …
Electromagnetic radiations from mobile phones - Question raised in Rajya Sabha, 06/02/2014. The Minister Of Communications And Information Technology & Law And Justice has stated that "there is no conclusive evidence available so far to establish adverse effect on human health due to Electromagnetic Field ( EMF) radiations emitted from …
JNU study report on impact of mobile phone radiations - Question raised in Rajya Sabha, 06/02/2014. Minister Of Communications And Information Technology & Law And Justice has said that "two reviews have been published from the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi regarding effect of mobile phone …
