In 2010 June ,Tahelka A weekly Magazine of New Delhi /India , published a dangerous survey report making head lines in their 1st. week issue of magazine about the Cell Towers are located in Delhi Metropolitan city capital of India violating Govt. guide lines near to Important Hospitals,Important Schools,Near All India Congress party office, Connaght place , Near BJP party office, all these places are located near huge Cell Tower Radiation Zone,only PM's residence, Rashtrapati Bahavan ,Congress Party supremo Sonia Gandhi's residence are out of Cell Tower Radiation. They measured the radiation levels in important places of cell towers in MCD area & found that the radiation level are more than the norms .
With this news of magazine there was huge turmoil in Govt.as the cell towers pictures are shown & a detailed report published in the magazine showing all public reports , public complaints , people are already suffering in different diseases like Cancer , eye diseases , skin probs etc. due to huge cell towers are installed in residential/commercial bldgs. in low mounted roofs having not followed any guide lines of MCD ( municipal corporation delhi), This news immediately became head lines of popular Electronic media like Star News, Zee news in that time, Govt. of Delhi metropolitan city have done nothing !! The Hon'ble Delhi High Court issued a directive to Central Govt. based on petitions made by public PIL to constitute a High Power Committee to assess the health hazards on human health from Cell Tower Radiation by Medical Experts , Scientists, Technical Experts , Govt. DoT's Officials ? This news came in National news paper & Telegraphs news paper of kolkata, Court Ordered that to submit the Committee's Report within three months, three months report still awaited !! It has already passed one year of Court's order, nothing has come out. Again in the 3rd. week of June '10,another Cell Tower report published by Tehelka Magazine on India's famous business city of Mumbai , similar cell tower radiation report was submitted by the same Magazine about the dangerous radiation hazards in a Metro City !! The Tehelka Magazine Group still now active in measuring the radiation levels of Towers at random basis located in sensitive areas.
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We know that Cell towers in urban built up areas are hazardous, however the use of cell phones and their relevance in today's livelihood is going to stay. How do we come to a compromise. Does the cell phone companies erect their towers far away from cities, which will require higher investments, services will be prone to breakdowns.
ReplyDeleteAny practical solutions that could be win-win ?