The Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing (WPC) is a Wing of

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coming under the

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of the

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. The department is responsible for issuing amateur radio licenses, allotting the frequency spectrum and monitoring the frequency spectrum. The WPC is headquartered in

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and has regional branches in

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and

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. WPC is divided into major sections like Licensing and Regulation (LR), New Technology Group (NTG) and Standing Advisory Committee on

Radio Frequency Allocation Frequency allocation (or spectrum allocation or spectrum management) is the allocation and regulation of the electromagnetic spectrum into radio frequency bands, normally done by governments in most countries. Because radio propagation does no ...

(SACFA). SACFA makes recommendations on major frequency allocation issues, formulation of the frequency allocation plan, making recommendations on the various issues related to

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(ITU), to sort out problems referred to the committee by various wireless users, siting clearance of all wireless installations in the country, etc. Technical Group 'A' officers manning this organisation comes under cadre of

Indian Radio Regulatory Service The Indian Radio Regulatory Service (IRRS) is one of the cadre of central government recruit-engineers of the Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing (WPC) and Wireless Monitoring Organisation (WMO), composed of a cadre of central government recrui ...

. Wireless Adviser of India is highest officer in the hierarchy, who report to Member (Technology) of

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under

. Permission from WPC is required for importing any radio equipments in India, including walkie-talkie, RC cars/boats, drones/UAV, ZigBee, Bluetooth devices, etc. Imports of radio equipments into India, without prior permission from WPC, will be confiscated by Customs at point of entry. Individual WPC permission is not required for phones, computers, and routers. The certification process includes the application, evaluation and testing of the product before the WPC certificate and ETA (Equipment Type Approval) certification number is issued. There is currently no factory inspection needed and the tests can also be conducted by an accredited testing facility outside of India.

References

External links

Official site

Gazette notification

International Telecommunication Union

Ham radio directory of India
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India) Amateur radio in India Telecommunications authorities of India {{india-gov-stub

See also

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