Saturday, August 24, 2013

BMC to start taking down illegal cell towers in Sept. 2013

This is Based on News Mumbai Mirror -  For the Awareness of  the Readers of this Blog.

The Birhanmumbai Municipal Corporation next  month will start the process of dismantling  nearly 1800 illegal  mobile phone towers in the city.
Nearly two weeks  after it put in place a comprehensive  mobile phone tower  policy, the municipal corporation  has decided to first target  those towers  that are not caught  in a court case filed by service  operators in 2011 , when  the municipal corporation had first  initiated action against them.
" The New Policy will be implemented  with retrospective  effect , which means  it will cover  all 4,500 mobile towers  on rooftops in the city . Of these, 3620  identified  as illegal .
The Municipal Commissioner  Sri Sitaram  Kunte of BMC  said that since some  unauthorized towers have filed case against BMC  by mobile operators , next month start the process  of bringing  down  the rest.
With the new policy, which allows  more than two towers  on a building  and makes  the consent of 70%  of a building's residents  mandatory for installing  mobile towers  among other conditions , this excuse  no longer exists.
Kunte , however , clarified  that though  the policy  incorporates  guidelines issued by the Department  of telecommunication, it only deals  with structural  aspects  of mobile towers. "It is the Dot's prerogative  to look into the  radiation - related  issues ".
While  citizen groups  that have been  focusing  on health hazards   of mobile tower radiation are happy  with the BMC move, mobile  operators  say  that  any harsh action will impact  the quality of services.
Sri Rajan Mathews  Director General  of COAI in his  as usual  reaction said  " If  the BMC takes harsh & arbitrary action , we will move  to court again. If the BMC goes ahead and removes  the towers , network  will be affected. He is very worried that  ultimately end consumer will suffer ".
The Politicians Sri Vinod Shelar BJP corporator  , who has spearheaded  a campaign  against illegal towers that BMC  should not spare  illegal towers. He further said that "It is shocking that only a quarter  of the towers in the city are legal as a result number of cases falling ill  due to mobile towers  is on the rise. The BMC must  demolish  all illegal towers  immediately. The Corporation  has turned a blind eye  all along , which is why so many  illegal towers have come up ".
The new policy bars installation of mobile phone towers on schools, colleges , hospitals, orphanages , child rehabilitation  centers  and old age homes. It also specifies that apart  from the consent of 70% of a building's  residents , permission  of every person living on the top  floor must be taken.
From the above report it  gives us so disheartening  news  with Kolkata Municipal  Corporation / West Bengal , with  the attitude  of Municipal Commissioner & Hon'ble Mayor is  just Opposite of  the BMC.  BMC has got transparency , but KMC authority  close their eyes on the huge illegal cell towers in the city are standing on the roof tops of Hospital , School buildings , thickly residential areas & Commercial Buildings. We approached & submitted  documents  with  reports  of  many illegal towers for demolition  but till now not a single  case has been considered for demolition. There are more than 4000 cell towers in West Bengal , out of which 60% approx. are illegal and they have no permission, it is also surprising that the KMC authority  do not have any idea how many towers exists in Kolkata ? Where we are living , people in huge nos. are suffering from many types of illness. The continuous effort was made more than 2 years with Minister of Environment  ( W. B ),  Mayor of Kolkata & Municipal Commissioner with genuine cases . No result /action  taken by them.  The Policy of Cell Tower is same for all the States, but  some states are very active for such illegal activities with demolition program and some state close their eyes &  gives indulgence to corruptions with a plea they do not have infra structure . But they are not at all concern  for health hazards of people from Radiations.
There is TERM Cell  under  DoT  in all the state but  they are also not active in measuring radiation levels of cell towers  & they have no list of cell towers in their record !
Where we will get Justice we do not know !!  When  Country have clean Governance  yet  to come after 67 years of Independence ?

More  next .

 

4 comments:

  1. This is a great article and I did not know there was an issue with illegal cell towers. However, I am sure eco-friendly cell towers could have a great impact on the environment. The government should be encouraging more changes like this. I think people should switch to power suppliers that use green gas. After I learned about NA Power, I knew I need to switch my power so I was not harming the environment.

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  2. I appreciate from this blog post and thanks for tell about this illegal cell towers. Its seems looking so good.
    eco friendly ideas

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    1. Thanks for your comments , nice to know about ur. probs ! K . Mitra

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  3. Many thanks to you all for going through the blog , I appreciate all of you to contact me to help you all - to measure the radiation levels in ur. premises if you are already living near Cell Towers with tube light type antennas facing to ur. Buildg / flat . We have measuring instrument .

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