The Government has instructed all cell phone manufacturers to include radiation tags in mobile handsets to display Specific Absorption Rate, SAR value by the first of September this year. A radiation tag is a device embedded within a cell phone for checking radiation emitting from it.

The Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Milind Deora gave this information in Rajya Sabha yesterday. Mr Deora said that all the indigenous manufactures have been instructed to make necessary changes in the design, software and packaging in compliance with these instructions within the stipulated time.