The Minister of Communications launched ‘Tarang Sanchar’ a web portal for Information sharing on Mobile Towers and EMF Emission Compliances.
The portal will empower common man to know about towers working in a particular locality and whether they are compliant to the EMF emission norms defined by the Government.
Ministry has the complete collated technical details of over 14.5 lakh base stations (BTSs) spread across the country of all technologies (2G, 3G, 4G etc.) and of all Telecom Service Providers (TSPs).
The portal will allow users to get a tower or base station checked for radiation emission, for a fee of Rs 4,000.
The tests will be conducted by the local Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring (TERM) filed unit of DoT and the test report will be provided to the requestor.
The portal also has ‘EMF Overview’ and ‘Learn’ Sections, which provide numerous articles, booklets and videos, to further educate the citizens about EMF and coverage of telecom services.
There are over 25,000 studies by WHO in the last 30 years on the subject and there is no proof that EMF radiation has any harmful effect on human health.
Brushing aside growing concerns over the emanating electromagnetic frequency (EMF) radiations from mobile towers, the Telecom Minister reminded that Indian norms had prescribed 10 times stricter limits for radiation emission in comparison to global standards.
The Ministry has already approved installation of towers over government buildings, 16 places in post offices and soon a decision will be taken to install the same in Cantonment Boards, which will not only help in spreading digital connectivity, but will also solve the problem of call drops significantly.
The EMF Portal is designed to provide a public interface where an easy map-based search feature has been provided for viewing the mobile towers in vicinity of any locality.
