The High Court on Tuesday directed Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to formulate a guideline on mobile phone towers to regulate harmful radiation.
A bench of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Justice Md Salim passed the order upon hearing a writ petition and asked the BTRC to submit a compliance report within eight weeks.
On April 10, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed the court that they have already contacted the World Health Organisation (WHO), International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and International Atomic Energy Agency to obtain experts’ opinion on the public health risk from radiation created by mobile phone towers as the court asked previously on March 28.
A committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in a 2013 report that they found excessive amount of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phone towers. The report was place before the court on March 22 this year.
The report also requested the court to ask the BTRC to examine all Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) across the country and to monitor base stations regularly.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
