Chandigarh: After serving notices to the mobile service providers against erecting towers behind Sukhna Lake, now there seems to be a difference of opinion among the senior officials themselves. However, what is bothering the officials at present is the repercussion of their removal. The towers, if removed, would mean a complete blackout of mobile services in the northern sectors.
According to LAO Hargunjit Kaur, the enforcement staff has made all the arrangements to remove the towers by next week as per the directions given by the district magistrate. Officers admitted that the erecting the towers was an error on part of the SDO (buildings) office, which received payments from three mobile firms, even when the case was pending in the LAO’s office.
Deputy Commissioner RK Rao had issued orders for the removal of the towers saying that the permission to build the towers was provisional and there has been no mistake on the part of the SDO office. Last week, the Estate Office had ordered the immediate removal of towers behind the lake, where three mobile towers had come up a few months back disrupting the view from the main entrance of the lake. The towers had come up in the Kaimbwala area on an agricultural land. The towers were also in violation of the Periphery Act.