Row house mobile towers irk locals BMC reply to RTI plea shows cell towers on four houses are not on approved list Close to 2,000 residents of Kamgar Nagar Co-operative Housing Limited in Kurla have dragged four row house owners to co-operatives court for illegally installing mobile towers on their terraces. The residents have accused PK Sing, Shri Gavade, PA Gawkar and GD Vavikar of committing violations by installing the mobile towers without requisite permissions. According to the recent co-operatives department notification, permission of 70% members is required before erecting towers. We will take up the issue in the upcoming annual general body meeting, as the amendments arrived in June. The towers were put up in June 2011, and the notification is applicable in retrospect, said Avinash Bhate, a resident. The housing society consists of 384 row houses. Of these, 14/D, 27/D, 21/D and 44/D have mobile towers perched upon their rooftops. To an RTI filed by the residents, the BMC replied that these towers were not in the list of those approved by the civic body. In a reply to our query regarding the number of mobile towers legally approved by the BMC in Kurlas L-ward, we were provided with a list of 33 towers, in which the names and location of towers erected in our society did not appear. The towers have been illegally erected for financial gains, said Dilip Abhyankar, a resident. A notice was served by BMCs assistant commissioners office to GTL Infrastructure and Indus Towers under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966, to remove the contraptions from the row houses in Jan. Officials of the tower company Indus said, An application was sent to the BMC in Nov 2011 for permission to install temporary, mobile tower and related equipment. As there was no reply to the same within a prescribed period, the permission to set up the site was deemed to have been granted under relevant provision of law. The residents said that the row houses stick close to each other with a low wall, so the minimum distance in between is not maintained.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 04:27:44 +0000
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