The civic body is yet to take tangible action on its mobile tower policy. It’s been a month since the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation drafted a policy to keep a check on mobile towers in the city (it was done in November), especially on residential buildings, and near schools and hospitals.

Activists have been very vocal about the alleged health effects these towers have on the city. Hence, last week the BMC released a list of mobile towers in the city that were legal of the 4,776 towers, 3,618 are illegal (See box for examples of three such buildings) and 1,158 are legal. This means a shocking 75 per cent of the towers are unauthorised. The illegal towers are the ones the BMC never gave permissions to be installed. According to the rules, these towers have to be pulled down.