The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is soon likely to finalise a new policy on mobile towers. Under the policy, service providers operating illegal towers are likely to be given 15 days to conform to revised norms to be finalised by the civic body.
The policy is expected to take proper shape after a committee headed by councillor Meera Agarwal, which has been looking into ways to streamline the unregulated growth of cell towers in the city, submits its report to the MCD standing committee.
According to the reports, there are about 2,517 cellphone towers in the city set up without taking permission from the MCD.
Meanwhile, the amount payable by the service providers to the MCD for installing a tower has been increased from Rs 0.1 million to Rs 0.5 million.
