The Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR, is conducting a study in Delhi and the national capital region to find out adverse effects of radio frequency radiation emitted from mobile phones. Stating this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today, minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Milind Deora said, efforts are going on to examine whether use of mobile phones creates neurological and cardiological cancer and ear, nose, throat and reproductive disorders.

He said, efforts are also going on to measure Specific Absorption Rate, power density wavelength and frequency of radio frequency radiation emitted from various types of mobile phones and mobile phone towers under study.