Authorities in India to relocate 300 mobile towers to **isolated places**
over **health risks**
http://stopsmartmeters.org.uk/authorities-in-india-to-relocate-300-mobile-towers-to-isolated-places-over-health-risks/
In the wake of health risk posed by mobile phone towers, the Noida
Authority has decided to relocate all such antennas from residential areas of the
city. The authority will identify locations in isolated places — far from
residential colonies — where they will be relocated.
There are over 300 such towers that need to be relocated. The recent move
of the authority has been initiated after court*s direction to allocate
mobile towers at isolated locations rather than sealing them.
The officials of the Noida Authority said that earlier they had planned to
seal illegal towers, but they are working now on the guidelines of
Allahabad High Court, which has ordered to shift all such towers from residential
sectors to other places.
**We have ordered the officials to conduct a detailed survey and figure
out alternate locations so we could ask mobile tower operators to shift their
existing towers to those places. We have also ordered to get rid of the
towers from institutional and hospital structures with immediate effect and
shift them to other places,”** said PK Agarwal, Additional CEO of Noida
Authority.
In a meeting of senior officials of the Noida Authority recently, the
officials planned to shift these towers either to community centers at various
sectors or at sparse places so radiation from these towers could not affect
the local people.
The officials also decided to stop mobile tower operators from installing
more towers in residential areas as city already has around 600 mobile
towers for the population of seven lakh. During the meeting, it was also
planned to eliminate towers installed atop hospital and institutional buildings.
According to the survey conducted by the Noida authority and city police
last year, it was found that out of 600 mobile towers, 300 towers were
illegally installed on the roofs of residential units. Twenty per cent of the
towers have been illegally installed over institutional and hospital
buildings.
In a 2010 sealing drive initiated by the authority, 200 towers were sealed
from residential areas. Meanwhile, the Federation of Noida Residents
Welfare Association (FoNRWA) has also written to Noida authority seeking removal
of mobile towers from the roofs of residential units.
**As residents are suffering from various health disorders due to high
radiation from these towers, we have urged the competent authority to take
penal action against the companies responsible for their wrongdoing,** said NP
Singh, president of FoNRWA.
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