Scam shadow over Reliance Jio towers

Rajinder Nagarkoti

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 20

While the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has started taking action against the illegally installed Reliance Jio mobile towers in the city, a major scam has begun to surface in the installation of these towers. 

Documents of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation indicate how the company committed violations and installed towers on the civic body’s land without obtaining the requisite no objection certification (NOC) from the MC. 

As per the documents of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, the company had installed four towers on the MC land, despite the fact that the MC had rejected the NOC for these four sites, including those of Sectors 23, 32, 19 and Mani Majra. 

If this was not enough, the company also installed five towers in the areas, for which no application or document for obtaining NOC had reached before the Municipal Corporation. These sites were in Sectors 51, Ram Darbar, Sectors 15 and 49.  Sources said these towers were installed in the last one year. 

A senior MC official said they had completed their survey of Reliance Jio mobile towers installed on the MC land. A detailed report in this regard will be submitted to the MC Commissioner for further action, he said. 

Meanwhile, in continuation of their drive against the illegally installed mobile towers, the MC engineering wing today impounded a genset of the Reliance Jio tower installed in Sector 4. 

So far, the MC has disconnected power supply to 15 illegally installed Reliance Jio mobile towers and also impounded seven gensets of these towers. The gensets have been kept in the MC store and the community centres in different sectors.