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MARGAO: BJP Spokesperson Savio Rodrigues has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, appealing to him to stop the construction of mobile towers in school premises situated in the village of San Jose de Areal. In his letter, Rodrigues mentioned how the mobile company supervisors were telling the villagers who were protesting, that an FIR would be filed against them if they did not allow them to complete their work of erecting the mobile tower.
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The letter further says that the village panchayat had issued a stop work order to the mobile company but the company refused to stop the work, after which, Rodrigues requested Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to stop the work immediately, following which the work of the erection of the tower was halted. “The people are not against mobile towers, we are just against mobile towers on school premises,” said Rodrigues, in his letter to the PM.
He further spoke about the orders of the government and its implementation appears to be done with brute force and under police protection without even taking into account the view of the people the mobile towers are intended to serve.
The letter also mentioned a school for special children in Mapusa, where a mobile tower was constructed despite opposition from the locals after the company went to Court.
