About time mobile towers and hazards thereof are highlighted. Bernice Pereira
Sent from my iPhone > On 01-Mar-2019, at 3:34 PM, Sebastian <sebydesio...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > http://bharatmukti.blogspot.com/2019/03/mobile-tower-radiation-hazards-for.html > > Date: 1st March 2019 > > To, > Chief Secretary, and Chairman of State Level Telecom Committee (STC), > Secretariat, Porvorim, Goa > > To, > Secretary (Urban Development), > Secretariat, Porvorim, Goa > > > > To, > Secretary (Education) > Secretariat, Porvorim, Goa > > To, > Secretary (Health) > Secretariat, Porvorim, Goa > > To, > Principal Secretary (Environment) > Secretariat, Porvorim, Goa > > > Subject: Mobile Tower radiation hazards for Students, Teacher, Parents and > Public > > > Dear Sir/Madam, > > > We wish to draw your attention to the indisputable evidence of radiation > hazards from mobile towers presented in Bio initiative 2007 that got upgraded > in 2012 and 2017. All the three editions are available online with simple > google search is prepared by 29 scientists from 10 countries in the world > including 02 of them from India. The report that contains over 1500 pages is > not sponsored by any electrical or telecom company and is outspoken on > radiation hazards faced by human beings and need for the applicability of > Precautionary Principle to face the radiation emitting from towers, mobile > phones etc. > > We write this letter to you after our tryst with Goa Government to request > for the monitoring of mobile tower radiation in Goa. From our correspondence > with Goa State Pollution Control Board it has been revealed that Goa > Government does not have facility for monitoring of mobile tower radiation > and people who are raising this issue are directed towards term centre in > Nagpur, Pune etc. This has been the experience for past three years. > > Now we have come across Bio imitative Reports and realized that mobile phone > and mobile tower radiation is one of the cause of several diverse sicknesses > such as breast cancer, rising infertility, high hearing frequency loss, > fatigue, Partial memory loss, Dizziness, Sleeping Disorders, Skin infections, > Hearing impairments, Cardiac Problems, Cancer, depression, insomnia, ovarian > cancer, vision loss in school children from smart phones, brain tumors, > migraine, joint pains, memory loss, effects on gene and protein exposure, > damage to immune system, Effects on neurology, childhood concerns, > Alzheimer’s diseases, Autism, etc. > > In view of the above dangerous scenario created by mobile phone technology > you are requested to take up following urgent steps: > > 1. Review the guidelines for installation of Mobile Base Stations > Towers, Goa State in the light of evidence of radiation hazard contained in > Bio-initiative 2012 and its upgraded version of 2017. We will be happy to > share the soft copies of these reports on request. > 2. Examine the enforcement of the guidelines for installation of Mobile > Base Stations Towers, Goa State. There are over 50 complaints received at > GSPCB office and many are hanging in limbo as no radiation monitoring is done > for four years either from Nagpur or from Pune. Induct efficient radiation > testing capacity for the State of Goa. > 3. Initiate mobile tower audit for all the Educational and residential > localities in Goa. Installations, it is observed, are carried on in violation > of the guidelines mentioned. Barely 10 meters away from the residential house > of Mr. Placid D’Souza there is mobile tower in Mapusa with 17 antennae. > Barely 20 meters from Holy Cross High School, Siolim, there is mobile Tower > with nearly 20 antennae. Mobile Tower is being installed in residential areas > in Curduwada, Khandola, Ponda and opposed by villagers. And so is the case in > Merces, Tiswadi. Mobile Towers set up in residential areas in Bambolim-Nauxim > villages in spite of public opposition. All these are without any monitoring > facility of radiation. > 4. Initiate discussions and awareness on radiation hazard in schools, > colleges and public forums like media, Panchayats. Goa boasts of being most > literate state. Its time Goa also becomes most radiation literate rather than > surrender our destiny to vested interests and telecom bullies who does not > like questioning of mobile tower radiation. > > All these measures are necessary otherwise Goa will face accumulated impact > of low intensity radiation over the next few years, and we request you to > oblige and take action. > Thanking you, > Yours sincerely, > Sd/- > Maggie Silveira > President, Goa Unit