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Haji Ali dargah trust gets away with mobile tower, cuts radiation risk
Updated On: 09 October, 2018 05:20 PM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar
The towers, which were emitting worrying amounts of radiation at that frantically busy spot, have disappeared from view
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Here's a before view of the spot near Haji Ali Juice Centre
The landscape around the popular and crowded Haji Ali juice centre looks transformed, thanks to an entire cluster of mobile towers atop the Haji Ali Dargah Trust office that has now been removed. The towers, which were emitting worrying amounts of radiation at that frantically busy spot, have disappeared from view. For a few years, the tower cluster seemed omnipresent and in fact, was one of the most visible signs above the famous juice centre. The Dargah office is next to the centre. The towers used to yield Rs 80 lakh annually to the dargah trust.
Vanishing act
Suhail Khandwani, Haji Ali dargah trustee said, "We have finished removing all the towers, sometime ago. We had been sent a notice by the Collector that the Trust needed to pay some rent to them from the proceeds of the income we got from the Towers. Then, of course, we are also aware that radiation from mobile tower antennae is harmful to health. We have thousands of devotees visiting every day, it is better if we remove the towers."
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