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MCD gives cell tower owners a month to clean up their act
(Mail Today (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) OWNERS of cell phone towers in the Capital that do not conform to the prescribed guidelines have 30 days to regularise them, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ( MCD) has said.
The MCD passed a policy to regularise the 2,517 illegal towers on Tuesday. " If all illegal towers aren't regularised within a month, we will dismantle them.
We are giving the owners 30 days to shift the towers," Ram Kishan Singhal, chairman of the MCD standing committee, said.
According to the new policy, towers can only be erected on industrial and commercial areas, government buildings, vacant land, major drains and multi- storey group housing complexes. Towers on residential buildings will be allowed only if no alternative site is found.
Many people had objected to towers in residential areas claiming these emitted radiation that posed a health hazard.
" We had written to the World Health Organization asking about harmful effects of the towers.
They said there is no convincing scientific evidence to suggest that signals from the base station or wireless network can cause adverse health effects," said Vijender Gupta, standing committee member.
Towers can't be set up in schools, hospitals, and dispensaries.
But they can be erected in colleges, educational institutes and government institutes.
" Colleges don't have small children and there is no harm if a tower is erected in government institutes," said Meera Aggarwal, chairperson of the subcommittee on mobile towers.
But they can't be erected on heritage buildings or houses in the Bungalow Zone area ( Civil Lines).
If a tower comes up in an area under the Airports Authority of India ( AAI) or the Archaeological Survey of India, it will need a noobjection certificate from them.
Operators have to apply to the MCD with a consent letter from the building's owner, necessary drawings and a structural safety certificate issued by a qualified structure engineer, the policy says. The MCD shall charge Rs 5 lakh for every five years for each tower installed.
A tower's height has been restricted to 15 metres and it would need permission from the AAI.
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