Telecom companies will be given three months to move existing towers that violate the rules, failing which action will be initiated against them.
The Karnataka government has brought in the Telecommunication Infrastructure Towers Regulations, 2019 into effect as of 29 May, to prevent the mushrooming of mobile towers. According to the new rules, all mobile towers should be located at least 50 metres from schools, religious buildings, hospitals and a few other buildings. “All new mobile towers will have to follow these regulations while existing ones will have to be shifted if any violations are found. Telecom companies will get three months to move towers failing which action will be initiated against them,” said Urban Development Minister UT Khader, according to a Times of India report. Towers near rivers will need to be shifted 6 metres from the banks; by 5 metres near lakes and water tanks that are greater than 10 hectares in size; by 3 metres near lakes and water tanks that are lesser than 10 hectares in size, and by 5 metres from the defined boundaries of canals and storm water drains that are 10 metres in width. In residential areas, mobile towers can come up only on vacant land and there needs to be at least 3 metres of buffer zone around the tower. In case there are no empty lands, towers should be shifted to rooftops and positioned at least three metres from the edge of the building. The new regulations further add a fee for erecting towers along with stringent licensing procedures. Telecom companies will need to pay a fee of Rs 1 lakh to the BBMP per tower in Bengaluru. Similarly, telecom companies should pay municipal corporations, town panchayats and gram panchayats as the sanctioning authorities to install towers in other areas of the state. As per the new rules, telecom operators will also have to submit a set of documents, including the location, site plan, structural ability certificate, occupancy certificate, ownership document, lease agreement deed, and a no-objection certificate from the fire department. Of these, the site plan and occupancy certificate are vital. The new rules were deemed necessary after the BBMP found many mobile towers were built on unauthorised buildings. The BBMP estimates that there are 6,700 telecom towers in the city of which 5,500 are currently built on unauthorised or illegal buildings. The buildings were deemed illegal/unauthorised based on declarations made by the telecom companies themselves to the BBMP.
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