Calling it a serious issue, anti-radiation activist Girish Kumar said the "illegal" towers can pose a health hazard to thousands of people. But the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) called the towers legal. Its director general, Rajan Mathews, said on Thursday, "Civic permissions for the towers are pending, but we will obtain them in due course. None of the towers poses any health risk."
The COAI said its records show that Mumbai has a total of 9,000 cell towers, of which 4,422 have civic permissions . It is not clear why the BMC maintains a different set of statistics, which show not morethan 3,620illegal cell towers in the city.
Mathews said there is "unwarranted panic" in the city on the cell tower issue and emission levels in norms set for Mumbai (and India) are so low that there is no need for even an exclusion zone. He was referring to the BMC's draft policy that bans celltowers on schools,colleges , hospitals , orphanages , child rehabilitation centres and old-age homes . He said emission levels in India are 90% less than WHO-approved levels and so there are "adequate safeguards for all segments of the population".
Anti-radiation activist Prakash Munshi said, "The COAI is misleading us. There has been no change in radiation levels after the socalled safe norms were adopted in September 2012... Radiation levels did not go down to 10% of existing ones in most parts of the city."
T R Dua , senior director of Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA ), said it will be difficult to remove any tower in Mumbai as this can affect connectivity and result in call drops and inconvenience to people .
Mathews said , "A month ago , the WHO clearly stated that international studies provide no indication that environmental exposure to radio frequency fields, such as from base stations , increases the risk of cancer or any other disease ."
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