# Department of Telecommunications, India (DoT)

> Sets and enforces India's base-station EMF limits at one tenth of the ICNIRP levels and publishes per-site compliance data through the Tarang Sanchar portal.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/organizations/india-department-of-telecommunications
- Collection: Organizations
- Record id: `organizations:india-dot`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/organizations/india-department-of-telecommunications
- Also known as: DoT India, Tarang Sanchar, TERM Cell

## Key values

- **Role:** regulator
- **Jurisdiction:** IN
- **Website:** https://tarangsanchar.gov.in/

## Related records

- [India DoT base-station EMF norms (1/10th of ICNIRP)](https://emfbase.com/standards/india-dot-emf-norms): India enforces base-station exposure limits set at one tenth of the ICNIRP 1998 power-density reference levels, effective 1 September 2012 and applied as a telecom licence condition.
- [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.