PANJIM: The Department of Telecommunications, Goa will conduct an awareness webinar on mobile communication and EMF emission on Saturday, at BSNL Goa Sanchar Bhavan conference hall, Patto Plaza, here, at 10 am.
The workshop will help to understand the importance of telecom towers and also to clear the myths about mobile towers.
According to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, the government has given permission to install around 80 mobile towers across the State and some of these towers are in the process of installation. The permissions were granted in view of network connectivity issues faced by the students while attending classes online.
Sawant further added that instructions have also been given to the Education Department to give worksheets and recorded videos to students, who are facing connectivity issues.
Mobile services and wireless broadband access are necessary not only for rapid growth and modernisation of various sectors of the economy, but also for success of key government initiatives related to Education, Health, Finance, Direct Benefit Transfer, e-KYC and other e-governance services, states a press release.
Telecom towers are critical infrastructure however, certain public concerns have been raised on health effects of electromagnetic waves from the mobile towers.
The Google meet link to join the video conference is https://meet.google.com/dho-wzyx-wkk
