RSSCHANDIGARH: The municipal corporation has made a detailed plan for functioning of mobile towers, installed at various community centres in city, which will do away with the problem of non-availability of signal.
A present, over dozen mobile towers are not functioning due to month-long tussle between the municipal corporation and cellular companies over issues like rent and criteria of
installation.
In a meeting of the finance and contract committee (F&CC) two days back, the committee decided to increase the annual rent of towers from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.75 lakh. Besides, it also decided that towers will only be installed on the ground floors of the community centres and companies will use electrical UPS for these towers instead of installing generators.
Dr A P Sanwaria, nominated councillor and member of the F&CC, said, “It has been found that various cellular companies have not been giving annual rent to the civic body since many years and now we will incur these charges in the form of the arrears.”
According to sources, the authority will have to intimate this new clause to the Punjab and Haryana high court also, as some of the cellular companies had approached to the court in this matter.
