The illegal mobile towers in the municipal limits of the State capital would be removed within thirty days, informed the Urban Administration and Development Minister Babulal Gaur to the House, while replying a query of senior Congress legislator Arif Aqueel on Thursday.

The issue of illegal mobile towers in the city was on Thursday raised in the State Assembly by Congress legislator from Bhopal North Arif Aqueel. leader of Opposition in the State Assembly Ajay Singh also joined the senior party legislator and asked the Minister to take up the issue seriously.

Aqueel raised the question during the Question Hour and wished to know from the UAD Minister Babulal Gaur that how many mobile towers are located in Bhopal municipal limits and of them how many are legal and how many are illegal, besides how many mobile towers are located near schools and hospitals.

Gaur in his reply informed the house that a total of 637 mobile towers exits in the city of them 320 are illegal, the ground reality that during the last 11-12 years permission has been granted for 259 mobile towers and during a survey in the year 2012 it was found that 397 illegal towers have been erected.

Gaur said that as per our knowledge Madhya Pradesh is probably the only State in the country where rules for erecting temporary mobile towers have been made through gazette notification on October 10, 2012. Before these rules were made the municipal administration removed 60 illegal mobile towers in the year 2012.

As per the rules of the State government, there are provisions that the illegal mobile towers could be legalised and or could be regularised. There is also provision that if the illegal towers companies do not get ready for getting it legalised than the municipal administration after giving notice of 90 days could erase them.

The UAD Minister said that at present the figures of mobile towers near schools and hospitals are not available but if there exits any such towers than arrangements would be made to relocate them.