Cell Phone Towers
The protests by the residents of a housing society in Chunabhatti, Sion in Mumbai have been falling on deaf ears as their builder has been garnering the rent against two mobile towers on their building without fail. The rent is being paid by the service providers for the towers to the builder for the towers [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has plans of including the norms for setting up mobile towers in the city. This has been planned witnessing many mobile towers coming up in the city. This initiative will be a part of development control (DC) rules which will be included in the revised Development Plan (DP) for old areas [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to eradicate the illegal mobile towers in the city. In the action, many housing societies are also going to face the heat because of the same. As per the civic body, around 1830 mobile towers out of 3705 towers in the city are illegal. Out of these, many have [...] Continue Reading »
After the protests by citizens on draft policy on the installation of mobile phone towers, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to seek their suggestions for the same. The draft policy, announced recently, got many bad remarks from the citizens. Due to which, the civic body has planned to include recommendations before it finalises the [...] Continue Reading »
A new policy is in the making by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) regarding new cellphone towers in Mumbai. According to the draft policy, the new cellphone towers to be built on the terraces have to be out of bound for residents of apartments in Mumbai. The policy has been formulated following the guidelines and instructions [...] Continue Reading »
Following complaints from the residents of the proximity of cell towers to their buildings, the telecom operators in the city have removed 86 cell towers from the top of the buildings. According to sources, 61 base trans-receiver stations (BTSs) in the city were flouting radiation levels of 450 milli watts per square metre. The civic body [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) issued notices to 12 property owners in Kengeri for installation of mobile towers on the terrace of their homes. The authority claims that renting out terrace portion to any telecom company for setting up their mobile towers is in violation of the rule that residential property cannot be used [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- Some of the shop owners of New Mayuresh Darshan Housing Society have filed a case against the illegal construction of a cellphone tower in Kalyan Housing Society alleging it can cause health problems for the public. But the Kalyan civil court rejected the stay order. Reacting to the judgement, Rajan S Mathews, director general, [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- Mobile operators may need approvals from 70 percent residents of a housing society to set up a cellphone tower. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to make it compulsory for an operator to get permission from 70% residents of that housing society on which a mobile tower is proposed. The draft from the [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai could face serious water crisis as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) informed the city that its stock of water will last for only 124 days. At present, there is 10 per cent water cut in the city. The current usable water content available is only 62 per cent of what was available last year. [...] Continue Reading »
