Thursday, September 29, 2011

Cell tower what I saw

After my retirement  from Govt.  service in 2006  , I further worked as Sr.Project Manager with a Delhi based Consulting firm  nearly 2 years then decided  not to work any more, while doing a Project in a new township of East calcutta I have seen  cell Towers were established by BSNL of highly mounted with circular & vertical antennas, that time the private cell towers started to get  their license  from Govt./DOT , the new  service providers initially followed the govt. guide lines given by respective States , local state bodies like municipal corporations , urban bodies,gram panchayats etc. That period  towers were quite a few in number but after some time due to development of telecom technology & to provide more coverage among cell phone users, the service providers started to lease privately by using residential buildings, schools buildings, hospital  buildings with municipal permissions. But later when the Central Govt's. Health & Welfare  dept. amended the earlier orders after receiving many complaints from parents, guardians & many residents, the  Welfare Committee issued new guidelines by State Govt. after amending the earlier orders to avoid  School & Hospital  buildings not to be used for cell tower and leasing by the Cell Phone Service Providers who were working in respective areas. In the mean time I read lot of news as complaints in Print media about the Illegal Cell towers coming up in many parts of India violating the guide lines, it started gradually in many places of different cities, legal battles started gradually between public & service providers for their unlawful act to make cell phone business. Meanwhile I had chance to visit UK/London  & a few cities in Europe and while visiting different places in abroad I did not notice any mobile towers like our Country - mostly the cell towers  are highly mounted , invisible, cell towers are not mushroomed like our country, single tower is shared by many service providers in a decent way with aviation lights  fixed on top of cell towers, fire fighting arrangement wherever necessary. After a few months I came back to Kolkata. Since then it struck in my mind very adversely why our service providers are doing  indifferent when the technology is same for all? I started studying many articles on cell phone towers written by many Physicists, Scientists, Medical experts,  Nobel Prize Nominees, our Ex President Dr. Abdul Kalam Azad -  in their opinion the cell tower emits Electro-Magnetic Radiation (EMR) constantly & harmful to  human health & it creates health Hazards, if the cell towers are Installed in residential areas! It  struck me very much how to convey such health Hazards to the public! I then asked my  friends who are social activists, I got a strong support from my friends.  
I will write more next time about my progress done so far!            
Happy Navaratri  to all.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Cell radiation and health hazard

Hello All,
This is my first blog post, this blog is primarily focused to combat illegal installation of cell phone tower near residential areas in Indian cities and why our Government is not doing anything about this. Does the government not give any credibility to our lives? I want to be sure that I am NOT against Cellular technologies.
My objective is to get like-minded people together and raise a voice to the Government. I want you all to put your comments and suggestions regarding this and make this blog popular enough to get their attention. I want you all to put in any solutions or suggestions that might have worked in your neighborhood that helped fight against similar encounter.
I have been travelling around various cities in UK and USA in the past few years where I have noticed a much better installation procedure of these cell phone towers. These towers are either located in the woods or highly mounted in the residential areas & also invisible type cell towers. My recent visit to USA has been to highly populated cities like down town areas of  Boston, NYC, New Jersy, Dallas, etc. In these cities, the towers have been located out in the mountains, top of high rise buildings and top of high tension electrical towers. I have also seen multiple service providers have grouped their antennas together in a single tower avoiding multiple tower installation also simplifying tower maintenance.
Our Governments on the other hand are least bothered about all the health hazards that we Indians are prone to. Multiple cell phone towers in a residential neighborhood is very harmful to us, because of the amount of electro-magnetic radiation (EMR) these towers emit. These towers emit EMR with a frequency of 1900 Mhz, these high frequency radiations can pass through our bodies easily and effect our immune system. Medical research have shown that diseases like cancer, memory loss, headaches etc. These radiations are very bad for our younger generations and also pregnant women.
Finally I would like to conclude my first blog post saying that, IT IS NOT TOO LATE!
We could reach out to our government and provide credible logistics and make our government aware of the harmful radiation affecting us.
Your thoughts and suggestions will be highly appreciated.