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♤ The MoEF has to notify the impacts of communication towers on wildlife and human health to the concerned agencies for regulating the norms for notification of standards for safe limit of EMR.
State/Local Bodies:
♤ Regular monitoring and auditing in urban localities/ educational/hospital/ industrial/ residential/ recreational premises including the Protected Areas and ecologically sensitive areas.
♤ Carry out an ‘Ecological Impact Assessment’ before giving permission for construction of towers in wildlife and ecologically important areas.
State Environment and Forest Department:
♤ State Environment and Forest Department are entrusted with the task of providing regular awareness among the people about the norms on cell phone towers and dangers of EMR from them.
Department of Telecommunications:
♤ Avoid overlapping of high radiation fields. New towers should not be permitted within a radius of one kilometer of the existing tower.
♤ The location and frequencies of cell phone towers and other towers emitting EMR should be made available in the public domain
♤ GIS mapping of all the cell phone towers to be maintained to monitor the population of bird and bees in and around the wildlife protected area and the mobile towers.
♤ Need to refine the Indian standard on safe limits of exposure to EMR, keeping in view the available literature on impacts on various life forms
♤ To undertake Precautionary approaches to minimize the exposure levels and adopt stricter norms
Other agencies
♤ Any study conducted on impact of EMF radiation on wildlife needs to be shared to facilitate appropriate policy formulations.