To
Jt.Director,
Town Planning Pune Region,
Sahakarnagar, Sarang Society,Pune411009
Sub: Hearing on Suggestions/objections to notice no.TPS.1910/1978/Cr
NEW 65/12/RP/VD-13(under M.RT.P.Act1966) Regulation in respect of telecom cell
sites/base stations and installation of equipment of telecom network described
in Sch. B of notice.
Sir,
We thank you for calling us for the hearing on 27/01/2014 on above
subject. Present at the meeting were Mr.Gautam
Idnani, Adv.Ms.M.Rahirkar, Mr Suresh Karve from our side Besides your self.Mr.S.Naik
and your staff.
The following issues were raised and discussed:
It was agreed upon that the issue of radiation was a complex
one and needed to be tackled at the
mobile tower level and also at the user level, meaning at the mobile hand set
level. The principle of cautionary approach has to be applied. It was also
understood that the issue needs a multidisciplinary approach which should
include experts from various branches of
Medicine, Bio-electro-magnetism, Physics, Civil and Telecom engineering at
least.
a)Pt.6: Planning norms for erection of TCS/BS
pt.6-2:Who will give the report of ecological impact assessment?
Which authority will accept/reject it?
Pt.6-4:The
calculations of safe distances by DOT is based on radiation level of
450mW/sq.meter. Where as the
Bio-Initiative report-2012 recommends the radiation level of 0.1mW/sq.meter. There
fore the distance specifications of DOT will give out 1000 times more radiation
than recommended by Bio-Initiative repot2012.Therefore
the safe distance norms need to be revisited. And it should be a minimum of 500
meters to be on safe side.(pl. Refer to GK newsletter sept-oct2013 submitted in digital format to your office computer for more
information).
b)Pt.6-6 Installation of base station antennas---- within3
meters from the boundaries of schools, colleges ,hospitals defies logic of your
point no.6-4 regarding safe distances. Besides we do not agree that the removal
of existing mobile towers subject to
provision of clause 8(4).Future generations must to be protected from radiation
and therefore there should be no mobile towers in near schools, colleges,
hospitals.
In the entire notice the subject of the height of mobile towers
on terraces is missed. We suggest that if the power transmitted is 0.5
to1 watt/tower (as in U.S.A) the minimum safe height can be a few meters. From
practical point of view 10 meter or slightly more of height is possible as
weight and wind load factors may cause problems for the buildings.
c) We should follow the Switzerland model for power density
norms where the power density is0.042watt/sq.meter for 900MHz and
0.095watt/sq.meter for 1800MHz.
d)Pt.7.EMF radiation norms:
If power density is reduced to 1or 2 watt/tower the no.of
towers will increase two times (with proper cell planning).If transmitted power
is reduced by 10 times the people living in those areas will receive much
less radiation.
Pt.7-2:There are 5 lakh towers and only 6 TERM cells in
India. We suggested that their work should be de-centralised and delegated.
Electro-smog meters, to measure radiation, can be given to each ward office of
the municipal corporation, the staff may be trained to handle ,maintain, check
calibration of the electro-smog meters and service may be provided to any
citizen to find out the level of radiation at his residence or area by charging a token fee. These meters
are available for 200 to 300 dollars.In India
Meco Industries of New Mumbai manufacture them. An internet search is
advised for that.
The fixing of liability of cell tower companies in case of
radiation induced diseases like cancers ,etc was discussed .e.g. In Italy the
Italian Supreme Court had given compensation to Mr.Innocenti who used his mobile phone for 50hours per week
for about10 years and developed brain cancer.
We also suggested the undue importance has been given to
TERM cells. It would be interesting to find out how many mobile towers they
have found out which have violated the radiation norms and booked for it so
far.
Mr. Patil(Jt.Director) suggested that the periodicity of
checking the radiation should be quarterly by TERM cells (without intimating
the tower companies).
The concept of self certification by cell tower companies,
was totally rejected by our members as it is too much to expect that any operator will certify that his
radiation levels are above the guidelines and invite Rs.5 lakh fine.
Mr. Patil suggested that to have more transparency and
reliability of radiation levels at a given spot, the feasibility of putting up
large electronic display boards displaying the radiation levels at important squares
may be found out.
The bio-effect of blood brain barrier leakage and genetic damage was explained in brief.
For more details refer to section 24 Key
Scientific Evidence and Public Health transferred to your computer.
Because of paucity of time a 10 minute video:The Truthseeker
:Casualty Catastrophy was shown( about cellphone radiation)
We also submitted a letter in which the latest finding, as
we know in 2012, from various research done where biological ill-effects of
cell tower radiation is occurring at a very low level down to nanowatts and picowatts level
are given.
Following information was submitted in digital format
because of constraint of time:
1.Video:Resonance-The beings of frequency -90 minutes about the fundamentals of microwave radiation
2.Video:FULLSIGNAL-an award winning documentary, filmed
in7/8 countries of the world, about cell tower radiation problems
3.Section 24: Key Scientific EVIDENCES& Public Health
Recommendation,supplement2012 by Cindy Sage, Prepared by Bio-Initiative group2012.Please
we suggest to read following pages of
the 44 page report.Page3,4,5,6,10,13,18,19,23,26,29.30,31.
4.GK-Newsletter cell tower radiation sept-oct2013
5.GK-Newsletter cell tower radiation June13-Neha Kumar
6.A graphic presentation showing hazards at different power
density levels and at different distances from cell towers
7.sureshrkarve-yahoomail-imcreport(Inter ministerial report)
where the responsibility of DOT to disseminate information to the general public about hazards of cell
phone and cell towers ,the proper use of cell phones, the dos and don’ts has
been defined
We also handed over the Xerox copies of following pages from
the book: CELL PHONES:The Invisible
Hazards in the Wireless Age page By Dr.George Carlo and Martin Schram,Page
no.Insde page:AT &T giving free headphones to all its
customers,pagenos:7,21,49,115,Black and white photographs of diseases
etc,page158 describes how SAR values(Specific Absorption Rate) of cell phones are
calculated and how and why it must be reduced from 1.6 w/kg to 0.2w to0.4w/kg,159,188,189,Protect children215to219,Piecing together the cancer puzzle,pagenos243yo248,health recommendations,244to255.We
recommend you to acquire the book:
PUBLIC S-O-S, the shadow side of the wireless revolution by Camilla Rees an d Dr.Magda Havas. (In this book they expect an epidemic of cancer in U.S.A. if urgent steps are not taken)You can get it on amazon.com
PUBLIC S-O-S, the shadow side of the wireless revolution by Camilla Rees an d Dr.Magda Havas. (In this book they expect an epidemic of cancer in U.S.A. if urgent steps are not taken)You can get it on amazon.com
Sir, we have been given this God send opportunity
thorough you, to bring about
a new revolution in safe wireless communication from Maharashtra State and particularly
from Pune which historically has
been a seat of great revolutionaries
.Let’s do it together.
Thanking you,
Sincerely yours,
Suresh Karve
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