Airtel Mobile Tower - Mumbai — Disturbance created by Airtel Mobile Tower in the midst of residential area in Barve Nagar, Ghatkopar(w), Mumbai-86

Address:

Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra

To,
The Officer,
Bharati Airtel, Mumbai
Dated : 6-Feb-2012

We, the residents of Chitrakut Bldg- A wing, Barve nagar, Ghatkopar (W), Mumbai- 86, would like to lodge a complaint towards the disturbance created due to the Mobile Towers installed in the midst of the residential area and in the premises of the building, thereby causing hazardous implications to the life of the residents in the vicinity. Our compliant is specific that the Mobile Tower of Airtel has been installed on the terrace of the building that are hardly 20 to 25 feet away and which is totally illegal according to the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. As you know that the general rule is that the Mobile Tower has to be installed 100 meters away from the residential area and the radiation emitting from the Mobile Towers causes various effects on the human body and slowly proves fatal. Due to the close presence of electromagnetic wave emitting source that the tower is, we residents are all getting affected by the pollution caused by the waves.
Moreover, the Mobile Towers are also accompanied by generators which supply power to the towers. The generator runs 18 to 20 hours a day and makes unbearable noise and vibration. The noise from the generator is so much that we are unable to sleep at night, even during the day time we find it difficult to carry on our day today activities. The noise is so much that it can be heard from long distance too. This is highly disturbing for the small infants, students, women, old aged, sick and everyone around. Since past 2months the generator has been causing too much noise especially during the night time and becomes more specific and steadily increases during midnight due to the silent environment and empty roads. This issue has been brought to notice to the secretary of the building and mainly to the supervisors of Airtel. It has been time and again requested to them to put off the generator of the Mobile Tower, which they have been continuously refusing to do. The issue has also been discussed with few other members of the committee, but all in vain. It seems the society is absolutely ignoring the ill and hazardous effect on the health. Due to all this we all neighbours and residents of this building are facing headaches, migraine, heart palpitations, lack of sleep, problems in the ear drums, etc. Kinds of various problems.
We therefore, request you to kindly look into the matter and take appropriate action and see that either the Mobile Tower is removed permanently from the above premises OR be placed to some other safe location in order to prevent further damages to the health of the residents and all the innocent people here of the area.

Yours faithfully,
On behalf of Residents of Chitrakut Bldg, B-wing,
Barve Nagar, Ghatkopar (W), Mumbai -86
Pooja J
Email Id : [protected]@gmail.com