Topics covered in this presentation: Approach for Violations TSP Penalty guidelines dated 11th January,2012 TSP Penalty guidelines dated 11th October,2012 TSP Penalty guidelines dated 20th November,2013 TSP Penalty guidelines dated 10th June, 2014

1. Penalties for Violations of
EMF Norms in India
Presentation by:
Naveen Jakhar
ITS– 2014 Batch
TERM Cell Punjab
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2. Topics covered in this
presentation:
 Approach for Violations
 TSP Penalty guidelines dated 11th January, 2012
 TSP Penalty guidelines dated 11th October, 2012
 TSP Penalty guidelines dated 20th November, 2013
 TSP Penalty guidelines dated 10th June, 2014
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3. Approach for Violations
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Violations
Technical violations/EMF
threshold value violations
Signage related Violations

4. Penalty Guidelines dated 11th
January 2012
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 TERM Cells to check compliance of EMF radiation norms
 In a LSA where more than 1 TERM Cells are present,
TERM Cell of that LSA will impose penalty
 Demand notice to deposit penalty -> issued by Director
TERM -> 21 days given to TSP for depositing penalty
 TSP may represent their case to DDG of same TERM Cell
within a week -> if TSP does not agree with penalty
imposed -> above provision to be made clear to TSP with
the demand notice

5. Penalty Guidelines dated 11th
January 2012
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 Decision of DDG TERM is final
 Amount of penalty to be deposited within one week of
DDG TERM’s decision or within 21 days of receiving
demand notice, whichever later
 Penalty to be submitted in a demand draft in favour of
CAO, office of CCA
 If penalty not paid within this time frame, Interest rate =
SBI Personal loan rate +2% to be levied on TSP

6. Penalties as per DoT order dated
11th October, 2012
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Penalties as per DoT order 11/10/2012
Penalties for Non-
compliance to EMF
Radiation norms
Penalties for Non-submission
of Self Certificates
Penalty for non-
provision of signage
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Rs 5 Lakh per BTS per
licensee – single &
shared sites case
Rs 5 Lakh per BTS per
licensee if self certificates not
submitted by due date
Penalty of Rs 5000 per
signage per site on
first verification
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If BTS site is not made
compliant within 30
days, shut down of entire
BTS site
If no self submission within
30 days after due date, shut
down of entire BTS site
after 30 days of
verification date Rs
5000 per week subject
to a max. Rs 50000

7. Signage guidelines as per TEC Doc
August, 2010
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8. Penalty Guidelines dated 11th
October, 2012
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• Shared Site -> Penalty of Rs 5 lakhs per BTS to be imposed
on each TSP licensee on that site if BTS site is non –
compliant to EMF Radiation norms
• Shared site -> 30 days time given for making the BTS site
compliant to EMF norms -> No -> Complete BTS site
shutdown
• Time for submission of self certificates expired on
31/03/2011 -> Penalty of Rs 5 Lakhs per BTS per TSP ->
still don’t pay -> BTS site shut down after 2 weeks

9. Penalties as per DoT order dated
20th November, 2013
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 Penalty to be imposed for Non-submission/Delayed
submission of Self Certificates in case of new BTSs
 New BTS -> Self certificate to be submitted to TERM Cell
-> Commercially radiation of BTS can be started
 TSP to submit self certificate to TERM cell within 15 days
of first radiation done for testing purpose
 Operation support system snapshot corresponding to first
radiation for testing purpose to be submitted to TERM
Cell
 This 15th day is called due date

10. Penalties as per DoT order dated
20th November, 2013
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11. Penalties as per DoT order dated
20th November, 2013
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 Revised self certificate to be submitted by TSP for :
 Increase in TRX/channels
 Change of antenna
 Change in electrical/mechanical tilt
 Change in azimuth (more than 2 degree change)
 Change in antenna height
 Revised self certificate to be submitted with 15 days.
 15th day is called due date

12. Penalties as per DoT order dated
20th November, 2013
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13. Penalties as per DoT order dated
20th November, 2013
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 TSPs to submit self certificate once in every 2 years
 The minimum time duration between two successive
submissions for any BTS site by any TSP should be one
year or more

14. Penalties as per DoT order dated
20th November, 2013
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 If TSP submit incomplete/improper self certificate –
Penalty of Rs 5000 on detection of these by TERM Cell
 TSP pays the penalty and submit revised correct self
certificate within 15 days
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15. Penalties as per DoT order dated
20th November, 2013
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 Incomplete/Improper/Non-submission/ of Site
Photographs, Site layout or
 Submission of single certificate for BTS(s) of multiple
technologies at shared site or submission of unsigned
document by TSP
 Penalty of Rs 2000 per certificate when detected by
TERM cell &
 30 days time given to TSPs to remove all deficiencies
 No compliance received within 30 days -> penalty of Rs
3000 per week, subject to maximum of Rs 20000 per
certficate

16. Penalties as per DoT order dated
20th November, 2013
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 If simultaneous existence of deficiencies as discussed on
Slide No. 12 and 13 -> single penalty as per Slide No. 12 to
be imposed
 TERM Cell to indicate all deficiencies to TSPs
 In case of multiple shortcomings and deficiencies in Self
Certificate -> most severe of all penalties to be imposed
per BTS per incidence
 Non –compliance of BTS EMF norms -> Penalty of Rs 10
lakhs per BTS per incidence

17. Penalties as per DoT order dated
10th June, 2014
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 TSPs have different operational systems installed in their
telecom networks and snapshot from OSS corresponding
to first EMF radiation indicating date and time etc. varies
from system to system
 Therefore, one page snapshot from any system in any
format indicating date and time of first radiation will
suffice
 Undertaking -> “We hereby confirm that the above site is
compliant to the EMF levels as specified by DoT and
effective at present. Date of Upgrade: DD/MM/YYYY ”

18. Penalties as per DoT order dated
10th June, 2014
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 Penalty Table present on slide 12 had one ambiguity – the
due date of 15 days was not explicitly mentioned. It was
corrected in DoT Order dated 10th June,2014

19. Penalties as per DoT order dated
10th June, 2014
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 Dot Order dated 10th June, 2014 -> Revised self certificate
to be submitted by TSP for :
 Increase in TRX/channels
 Change of antenna
 Change in electrical/mechanical tilt
 Change in azimuth (more than 2 degree change)
 Change in antenna height
 Increase in Transmitter Output power (TX power)
 Revised self certificate to be submitted with 15 days.
 15th day is called due date

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 http://dot.gov.in/journey-emf
 http://dot.gov.in
 http://tec.gov.in
 Test Procedure Supplement on Test Procedure for
Measurement of Electromagnetic Fields from Base
Station Antenna (Addendum to TEC Doc. No.
TEC/TP/EMF/001/01.SEP-2009)
References:

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