# India base-station limit, 2–300 GHz

> 1 W/m² (19.29 V/m) for base-station emissions — a tenth of the ICNIRP public reference level, and the limit that applies to 2100 MHz and 5G mid-band sites.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/limits/india-base-station-limit-above-2-ghz
- Collection: Exposure limits
- Record id: `limits:india-public-2-300ghz`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/limits/india-base-station-limit-above-2-ghz

## Key values

- **Limit value:** 1,000,000 µW/m² — Regulatory value — legally enforceable — Stated as 1 W/m² with E = 19.29 V/m and H = 0.05 A/m. Applies to base-station emissions; handsets are governed by the separate 1.6 W/kg over 1 g SAR limit. [india-tarang-norms, india-dgt-emf]
- **Quantity:** power density
- **Frequency band:** 2–300 GHz
- **Population:** general public
- **Set by:** India DoT base-station EMF norms (1/10th of ICNIRP) (effective 1 September 2012; limits restated 2013)
- **Kind:** Regulatory — legally enforceable
- **Averaging time:** 6 minutes — A measurement must use the same averaging before it can be compared with this value.

## Related records

- [ICNIRP 2020 general public reference level, 2–300 GHz](https://emfbase.com/limits/icnirp-public-power-density-above-2-ghz): 10 W/m² incident power density averaged over 30 minutes and over the whole body — the reference level that 5G mid-band and Wi-Fi compliance is judged against outside the U.S.
- [India base-station limit, 400–2000 MHz](https://emfbase.com/limits/india-base-station-limit-400-2000-mhz): f/2000 W/m² (f in MHz) — 0.45 W/m² at 900 MHz and 0.9 W/m² at 1800 MHz, one tenth of the ICNIRP figure for the same band.

## Sources

- `india-tarang-norms` Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. *EMF radiation norms (Tarang Sanchar portal)*. https://tarangsanchar.gov.in/EMFPortalHi/DoT/EMFRadiationNorms — regulation, link checked 2026-08-12
- `india-dgt-emf` Directorate General of Telecommunications, Government of India (2013). *Public awareness — EMF exposure limits from mobile towers*. https://dgtelecom.gov.in/public-awareness/ — government, link checked 2026-08-12

Data licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Dataset version 2026.08.1. Retrieved from EMFBase, https://emfbase.com.

This record is reference data, not medical or legal advice. Regulatory limits, scientific guidelines and precautionary values are labelled separately and answer different questions.