New Delhi, India, April 30, 2012 - All cell-phones would soon be carrying radiation
tags in India. All the indigenous manufacturers have been instructed to display
Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) value on the mobile handsets on or before
1st September 2012.
Giving details in Rajya Sabha , the Minister of State for
Communications and Information Technology Sh Milind Deora said the
Department of Telecommunications has adopted SAR (Specific Absorption
Rate) level for mobile handsets as 1.6 Watt/Kg, averaged over a mass of 1
gram of human tissue. On 25th January 2012, all the indigenous
manufacturers have been instructed to make necessary changes in the
design, software and packaging in compliance with these instructions by
01.09.2012.
Shri Deora said, to regulate indigenous as well as imported mobile
phones, Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) has been requested to frame
standards for all mobile phones under the BIS Act 1986. All cell phone
handsets sold in the marked in India will comply with relevant Bureau of
Indian Standard’s (BIS) benchmark.
No comments:
Post a Comment