ARE YOU SAFE?

Writing in DNA [ 05 July,2012 ], Maitri Porecha provides following figures for,

“Permissible limits of EMF radiation due to Mobile towers“

[Source: IIT-B report , 2010 ]:

• India  …………………………..      4.5  Watts / Sq m

• USA  ……………………………..     3.0   “

• China  …………………………..      0.4   “

• Italy / Poland  / Russia …….  0.1   “

   

Now , it is a different matter that our Telecom Ministry has adopted an exposure limit of 9.2 Watts / Sq m as “ Safe “ !

How can you blame Telecom Ministry when Agriculture Ministry and Food Ministry, jointly decided to export 20 lakh tons of food grains (to take care of surplus stock rotting in the open under rain), even as 4,383 children (under 5), die every day due to starvation ?

Telecom Ministry is justified in asking,

“Is anyone actually dying due to overexposure to EMF radiation?“

  

Hemen  Parekh