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 .

 

Be Allert from False Cell tower Business in West Bengal / INDIA

 This  post based on the News   of  one  popular News paper --

It is for the Awareness of Common Public -   who are being cheated by False Agent of Cell Tower

Huge Rent , Job offer to the landlords  are now a days very  attractive Offer being  given to many Landlords & Land owners  in many metro cities of India  & now this business is  entering in west Bengal by fake agents of Cell Tower Operators  & they are falling in their trap by the  false Agent of Cell Tower Providers in getting the Roof & land for Lease Rent . By Giving this attractive offer to the owners of Land owner &  Land lord , they are falling into their net of false business . It is learnt that initially  these  fake Agents pay some advance to these prospecting owners . These  people start to believe their offer when   many receive   money . These fake agents  also publish their advertisement  in news paper with their Mobile  number.
In this  serious matter  DOT  & TERM Cell was contacted & as per their opinion  the Industrial house feel that there is a official approved list of  cell operators in India. In their opinion that there is no connection of  job offer related to installation of cell tower . Generally Cell Towers are installed after lot of Conditions  & Agreement being made between Land lord  & Cell Operators  also after receiving License from DOT .
Due to lack of awareness  among public,   most  people without verifying the documents  agrees to go for Rent & get Cheated .  Now a days after seeing Advertisement in News paper people are contacting  Telecom Research  and Monitoring  Cell ( TERM Cell ). The DDG of TERM Cell is enquiring about this fake business. These fake Agents initially pay an advance to the owners & after some time  these agent  ask owners to pay some money for installing cell towers. Currently  these type of incidents have been received from Uttar Pradesh . TERM Cell  is not doing  any Awareness program for the  common people   very inactive wherever this Deptt. Exists , rather they are not much vigilant  & not making any Random Test of Measuring of Radiation Levels of Antennas . Last Year  DOT has reduced Radiation Levels  from  1st Sept. 2012 &  Govt. announced that the TERM cell will check whether the cell operators have reduced or not ?  No initiative is rarely visible from TERM cell for  random checking for the interest of the public ? In Noida,  Hon'ble High Court has ordered to remove 300 cell towers for Illegal  installations  for wrongly installing in Residential Areas.  
In my  conclusion  I like to mention that people should not fall pray to these fake agents getting lucrative offer .  There is none to rescue people rather than to be harassed . Neither   DOT nor  State Govts.  are  thinking any remedy  from this Cell Tower hazards & Harassments in our Society !!

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New Radiation Rules of Cell Towers

The New Norms for Towers  which came into effect on September 1,2012 have made the radiation limit  more stringent it from 9.2w/sqm to 0.92 w/sqm, a 10 fold  decrease . It is lower than the US ( 12w/sqm ) and higher than  China  ( 0.4 w/sqm) and Russia ( 0.2 w/sqm ).
There are more or less 4.5 lakhs telecom towers  in India   of which 5%  (around 22000 towers) don't meet  new guide lines in India. Most of them are located in core areas of  Delhi, Mumbai , Kolkata & Chennai  and suburbs of Banglore , Hyderabad etc apart from  other tier - 1 cities.
To achieve the new norms, telecom companies will manually decrease  the power supplied  to the towers which  will bring down radiation levels. While this solves  the compliance problem, it means the coverage area goes down and more towers will be needed to cover the same area.
Here I like to put a  comment that by reducing the power level by 10 fold from 9.2 w/sqm. to 0.92 w/sqm, the cellular operators association of India (COAI ) have started to play their ill motive to harm environment  in the name of coverage area of each  tower will fall down & more towers mean your phone will search and switch between towers much more than before , leading to more call drops.
These cellular operators  are looking their business interest not for public, still they will not bring high capacity of modern technology of highly mounted one which will be costly for all these cell operators, the obsolete technology of foreign countries being used in India . Even in future if Govt. again brings down the power  at per with China , then what these cell operators will do ? These cell Operator Companies should leave IDEA of installing Cell towers on roof tops of Residential Buildings. The present Cell operators like to install more towers which is very objectionable idea that will automatically emit more radiation will soon create health hazards . The Govt. should  direct these Cell operators to bring modern Technology from western Countries & they should visit how other countries are doing this business !!
More  in next blog !
K.Mitra

New year 2013 - Thanks to all Blog Readers

I Convey my "Happy New Year 2013"Greetings  to all my Blog Readers .

May 2013 Bring A safe Radiation Free Environment in our Green Earth with new Dreams , New Aspirations  , Peace , Prosperity , Endless Joy -
Clean & Free from all Environmental Hazards Created by Science . We want
a clean environment for our Children , Elderly persons & Pregnant women.
Let our Govt. save us from this Cell Tower Radiation Hazards by further lowering the Radiation Power at per with other Countries.
More in next  blog,
K Mitra , mitrakisalay@gmail.com

How much longer are the effects of Cell Towers radiation going to be ignored

How can the World Health Organization (WHO ) say on one hand Cell Phones are possibly carcinogenic &  on the other  completely ignore Cell tower radiation?
Especially when we know  its the cumulative effects  that are particularly  dangerous ------ remember unlike cell phones , cell towers emit radiation 24x7 . Prof.Girish Kumar has been pondering this & other question relating  to cell tower radiation. Following   his campaign , the local Government  of Gurgaon shut down   298 cell towers in a residential  areas last January.
Want to know how he did it ? He bribed a few Officials ??  No. none of that . He just argued  a very good case. Actually he produced  an excellent report  on the dangers of cell Tower radiation.
Report on the Dangers of Cell Towers  Radiation
- if you are living in the main beam of cell phone towers  you are exposed  to comparatively  high  radiation  levels , you need particular help.
- common health  complaints  of people  living  in this main beam are headaches, sleep disturbances, memory related  disorders, fatigue, buzzing in  the head,  joint pain, miscarriage, cancer etc.
- the Telecom industry likes  to play down  the WHO class 2B Carcinogen classification which also has pickles, coffee, etc. in the list.Radiation from cell phone  towers is 24x7, people living   in the near vicinity  absorb this radiation continuously.
- the Industry experts claim that " Non- thermal biological effects have not been shown to be a  health Hazard" is wearing  very thin. Non- thermal effects  are actually  several  times more harmful than thermal effects.
- average human  life expectancy is approximately 70 yrs. We should be making EMF exposure guidelines to live  safely for at least 70 yrs.
- the sensation of "hot ear" that many people feel when using  a cell phone can cause  ear tumors, the temperature  of the ear lobes increase by 1c when a cell phone is used  for 20 minutes or more , this  warm sensation can lead to tinnitus & irreversible  hearing  loss.This can in turn lead to an  ear tumor.
- doctors from  at least 3 hospitals have reported that  over use  of cell phones  can  cause a loss in hearing & also ear tumors  especially  in teenagers.
- the Blackberry smart phone manufacturers  recommends to keep the phone at least  0.98 in ( 25 mm ) from our body  when it's in use.
- nobody is saying  ban cell phone towers.We know  that  without antennas the network would not exist & people could not talk to each.  What we are saying is  why transmit  so much power ? In India , Telecom operators transmit  20w  of power per carrier & they  use a number of carriers. Also  antennas of multiple operators  are placed on the same roof or tower to cut down the cost, so cumulative transmitted  power is very high. The operator should  not transmit more than 1to 2w of power in the  densely populated area .

Cell Tower Radiation  -- Just one form  of  Exposure 
Its important  particularly  if you  are in the beam.  Let us  not hung up  about cell tower radiation. Instead, let us  concentrate on what we can do, deal with the other  source of EMF  radiation, before we start waging war  on cell tower radia
tion.

More in New Year

How to protect yourself from Cell phone Radiation

For the awareness of Cell phone users .
There are 12 tips  to minimize your exposure  to radiation when using cell Phone.
1. Do not allow children  to use cell phone for calling.
2. Limit phone calls to those  that are absolutely  necessary.
3.Use an Air tube headset when possible.
4.When dialing  out do not put your cell phones  next to your ear until your correspondent has picked up the communications.
5. Avoid carrying  your phone directly on your body.
6. Make sure you use your  phone only in condition of
 optimum reception.
7.Do not use your  telephone  while you are in a moving vehicle.
8.Using your cell phone even in a parked car is not advisable.
9. Never Sleep with a cell phone switched  on at night beside your bed.
10. Avoid  using your cell phone if you are feeling  in any way  run down, the radiation  will make you feel even more tired & will weaken  your organisms  further.
11. Don't make mistake  of thinking  a low SAR cell phone in a safe cell phone.
12. As much as possible communicate  via text messaging rather than making phone calls.
more tips to come ---!

Towering Trouble Slow Killer living with cell phone tower is a back drop

Neha Kumar a Radiation & Micro Biology  Expert, daughter of Prof. Girish kumar , IIT , Mumbai --
Gave a press statement in Hindustan Times in last August '12 which I am repeating for our awareness that in Mumbai out of 3705  mobile phone towers  across the City that can jeopardize  your health & life , 1830  - that's roughly  half of them --- are illegal, says the Civic body .  but the Brihanmumbai  Municipal corporation ( BMC ), which discovered this fact , last June , when it conducted  a survey of mobile phone towers , has done nothing  for the past 13 months to remove the illegal ones. So far , Officials  have taken action against only 140 illegal tower. As reported in HT's July 15 edition, it's common for people living close to mobile towers to experience the recomends that radiation levels be  only 450 milli watts / sqm. the Current radiation levels permitted in India are 4,500 milliwatts . sqm as per  International commission on non-ionizing Radiation protection norms.
Adverse effects -According to experts  being expressed to a mobile tower located within 50 mtrs. is like being in a microwave  oven for 24 hrs. Though recently  on 1st. September'12 DOT has asked by Govt. notifications to Cell Operators  asking them to reduce power/radiation level  by 1/10th.  from existing  norms. This is nothing but show to public by Govt. , who is going to monitor ? Is TERM Cell of DOT have checked, who is authorized to do & organize nation wide checking ?
I am writing out of frustration that I live in Kolkata trying to locate the illegal cell towers , many towers are located , the cell operators defeated in appellate  court of Pollution Control Board ( W.B), the list of illegal cell operators  handed over to   Municipal commissioner, Mayor of kolkata, the Civic Body  is doing nothing to remove or demolish ! Though I find that Mumbai Civic Body is taking stern action by demolishing the towers , Hyderabad Civic Body , Rajasthan , Hariyana, Kerala etc . are taking actions  except our KOLKATA, a change has come in the name of Ma - Mati - Manus , but in reality  no change appears or not having any administrative  control or action against these  violators of Govt. guide lines . Kolkata Civic Body agrees that they have no idea how many Cell Towers  exists in Kolkata Residential Building Roof Tops, it is presumably more than 4000 cell towers exiting but Civic Body have no record though Govt. is losing lot of revenues.
Because we Indians live in fools paradise!
Wish you all happy & merry christmas & Radiation free New Year .
Hope to write more,
Kisalay Mitra