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Mobile companies penalized for violating radiation criteria
7/29/2021 11:55:11 PM
Early Times Report

Jammu, July 29: Out of a total of 6,63,411 mobile towers in the country, 9818 towers have been erected in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Like other parts of the country, mobile towers erected in J&K violated radiation-related criteria and a penalty was imposed on some mobile companies.
Replying to a question of Neeraj Dangi in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Communication, Devusinh Chauhan, informed Upper House of the Parliament that the present Electro Magnetic Field (EMF) radiation limits as laid down for Base Transceiver Station (BTSs) installed at various mobile towers across India.
The Minister admitted that some mobile companies have violated the set criteria and penalty has been imposed on violators for exceeding the prescribed EMF radiation.
The Minister said that one mobile tower and site was found to exceed the prescribed EMF while nine BTSs were found involved in violating criteria. A penalty worth Rs 64,19,921 was imposed on four Telecom Service Provider for violation.
The Minister further informed that the government has put in place a well-structured process and mechanism for monitoring any violation, so that Telecom Service Providers strictly adhere to the prescribed norms including submission of self-certificate before the commercial start of Base Transceiver Station (BTS) site.
“The field units of Department of Telecommunications also regularly carry out the EMF audit up to 10% of BTS sites annually on the random basis”, he said and added that the government has also doubled the penalty for violation of the prescribed EMF norms from Rs.5 lakhs to Rs.10 lakhs per BTS per incidence with effect from 20.11.2013 and further to 20 Lakhs per site on 29-03-2019.
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