Mumbai municipal rule w.r.t mobile towers

[mslondhe]

I want to have copy of mumbai municipal rule which states, "the permission of every single top floor resident is required before cell towers are installed on the terrace". I am asking this because I am staying on top floor of a building, where a erection of a mobile tower is under consideration; and I have come across enough scientific material stating hazards of mobile towers.
Pl help, its urgent.

[ambrish.p]

Londhe Sahab

You can file RTI Application with BMC & seek certified copies of rules/ regulations formulated by them in this regard

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regards

[ketanmirchandani]

Did u manage to get a copy of the regulation from the BMC.

Can anyone help

Thanx

[mslondhe]

I am yet to receive minutes of the meeting, in which other society members did not listen to scientific evidence against the mobile tower w.r.t. health hazards. We were crushed by the tirade of selfish, ignorant majority, greedy for money offered by mobile company. This left us with only 2 options:
1. Fight by legal way.
2. Flee by selling flat.
We were serously thinking of selling the flat & flee. But then we realised that, we would be making a scapegoat out of the purchaser. Hence we have decided to fight back through legal way.
So thank you Mr. Ambrish for suggesting RTI . Lets see how far we would be successful.
Mr. Mirchandani, the govt officials are all too busy with election duty. So we have to wait till next week. Till then the minutes of the meeting shall arrive.
Thanks for replies.
Regards
Manoj

[mslondhe]

Attached herewith is the application to PIO .

[karira]

Manoj,

Please reword your query to something like:

"please provide me certified copies of all rules regarding setting up of ........."
Just frame it nicely.
In one RTI application you can ask for more than one document/record.

Why don't you also ask for certified copy of the permission given by BMC ?
Certfied copy of the rules governing the authorisation of setting up of..... ?
etc.
etc.

Please also see the following thread:

Demolition of Illegal Structure by Municipal Corporation

[mslondhe]

Karira

Thank you very much for your valuable inputs. I have come to know that top floor can object for setting up of hoarding atop terrace. However nobody "uptill now" is clear in this regard. I shall do reframing as rightly suggested by you.

Thank you once again.

Regards

Manoj Londhe

[whackpack]

Dear Mr Londhe,

I have checked the procedure adopted in Gujarat, and in residential buildings, the local approval authority (municipal corporation) asks for copy of the society resolution in favor of the setting up of the tower on their building, for granting approval. The society can resolve in favor of setting up the tower by majority. This means that the top floor owners do not have a veto power.

Procedurally, if this is correct, i am not aware. Kindly share the result of your findings here for the larger benefit of the members, specially me.

[mslondhe]

Sir,
Thank you for your input. Sadly that is the story. Mobile towers are erected almost on every alternate building by crushing opposition of top floor by majority. However I have gone through many a scientific findings w.r.t. hazards due to mobile towers & phones.
All papers say that the EMF generated by the mobile towers/ phones leads to reduction in "Melatonin hormons". These are responsible for sound sleep, stable immune system & detoxyfication of blood. The EMF also breaks blood - brain barrier, a barrier that keeps toxins from entering the brain. This leads to neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease.
Other thing which happens is increase in "micronuclei" levels. Miconuclei are indicators of compromised immune factors & precursors to "CANCER".
Human body frequency is between 0 to 50 Hz. When it resonates with EMF field of @900MHZ, significant changes are created in codes of human body i.e. DNA. In other words it leads to DNA mutation.
I also told about a case in our neighbourhood, where a man who stays on top floor himself, invited mobile tower on his "private" terrace; took all the money from the company, did not share with other society members. Within 3 yrs of installation of the tower, his wife is suffering from "BREAST CANCER".
In Berkeley house, Staple hill, Bristol, UK, where Orange mobile tower was erected on the roof of 5 storey building, five out of eight flats on top floor have been affected with cancer; three have died.
Top floor of a Melbourne office building was closed down & 100 people were evacuated after 7 workers in 7 years were diagnosed with brain tumor.
After knowing all this, when I saw my society members, adamant on having a mobile tower on top of us; I felt as if they are "KILLERS" in gentelmen garb.
Mobile towers are nothing but slow poison.
And Mobile companies know it. Hence they do not take any responsibility about health hazards in their agreement. Even society members say, "we shall see if such illness occurs". What an argument. Let deadly disease happen to you, then society will look into this matter.
European Union is adopting "Precautionary principle", which states "Preventive action should be taken & damage should as a priority be rectified at the source & polluter should pay for it".
In France "Versailles Appeal court" has ordered Bouygues telecom, to dismantle its phone mastfrom a building top,on morning of 6.3.2009, on the basis of "PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE", because there was insufficient proof that CELL PHONES are harmless.
Obama administation is looking into this matter.
Our own central government is looking into it.
I hope they look into it fast.

[sandeepbaheti]

Mr. Londhe,
With all the information you have gathered and will get through RTI , it will be a good idea to file a PIL on this matter.