‘File 15/9 I RULES AND REGULATIONS. File No. 15/9 ORDERS RECEIVED FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 1. POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT 2. INDUSTRY AND LABOUR DEPARTMENT & COMMERCE 3. INDIAN WORDS CODE CORRECTIONS ETC. 4. ARMY DEPARTMENT. 5. EDUCATION AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 6. Policy Dept.’ [‎17v] (40/570)

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watts or less power. A qualified operator must be in possession
of a certificate granted by the Director General of Posts and
Telegraphs, India, or by the competent certifying authority in
the United Kingdom or in any British possession or protectorate.*
(6) Call-signs and wave-lengths are allotted only by the Governmt
of India and it is essential that they should be adhered to.
(c) It is essential in the interests of wireless communication generally
that the States should agree to observe signals of control {e.g.,
"suspension of working temporarily", " adjustment of wave
and power," etc.), when made by Indian Government Stations.
Such signals will only be made on the authority of the Director
of Wireless.
{d) The power employed in a wireless station in an Indian State should be
limited to that required adequately to provide the communica
tion intended from time to time.
(e) In the case of public emergency (see Appendix,' Note 2) it is neces
sary for the British Government and the States to work in close
co-operation, and the Imperial Government feel confident tha%
they may rely on the Indian States to co-operate with them. "
V. Since the responsibility will rest with the States for the working of
wireless telegraphs and telephones within their territories, whether worked by
the States or under licenses granted by the States, it is desirable that the purely
technical terms of the licenses granted by the States should be similar to the
terms of the licenses granted in British India.
Other terms, of an administrative nature, relating to fees, powers to ins
pect, powers to take over, penalties, etc., will be at the discretion of the States.
VI. The Government of India are prepared, when desired, to advise on all
matters concerning the design, siting and erection of stations. They are pre
pared, on payment of cost, if accommodation and staff are available, to train
supervising and operating staff and to specify, and order and, if necessary stafE
is available, to undertake erection of apparatus and plant. It would be advant
ageous both to the Government of India and to States if the Director of Wire
less and his Gazetted Officers could be permitted to visit wireless stations in the
States, and similar visits to the wireless stations in British India could be
arranged for the wireless officers of the States.
VII. The principles of this Resolution are liable to revision in the light of
subsequent experience.
♦ Note I to Clause IV (a).—The question of Indian States granting certificates is
reserved for further consideration.
Note II to Clause IV (a).—A qualified operator is essential for the following
reasons:—
(i) Unless he is technically qualified he will not know whether his apparatus is in
correct working order or not, and will not be able to detect or remedy any
faults arising from time to time. Technical qualifications are particularly
necessary with the complicated apparatus employed now-a-days.
(ii) Unless he is qualified in operating duties he will be unable to understand the
working of other stations or to operate hie own station correctly, with the
result that he will not handle traffic efficiently, if at all and in his efforts to
obtain communication he may unknowingly cause great interference to other
stations.