“The department of telecommunications (DoT) and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will launch an awareness campaign by October end to sensitise resident welfare associations (RWAs) that exposure to telecom towers do not cause cancer or other diseases.
“The ministry along with the regulator has set up a joint committee of officials for the purpose which will facilitate setting up of towers in areas where residents have opposed it”. (Report In Hindustan Times)
There is no doubt that radiation will be there. The question is to what extend radiation is there and whether it will affect the people nearby. This has to be made very clear, since it is a question affecting the health of the people.