Irrfan Khan participates in silent peace march against telecom operators

Mumbai: We are currently living in an era which is technologically advanced. Every second person we see has a cell phone. As the usage of mobile phone expands, our concern on it's flip side increases as well.

Just like many others, Bollywood star Irrfan Khan is too gripped with growing concern of the flip side of mobile phones. Ever since Irrfan moved to his new apartment in the Western suburbs of Mumbai, there have been three new mobile towers installed near his house. This caused Irrfan to worry about the radiations emitting from the network towers and it's drastic affects on the fellow residents living in the vicinity.

Irrfan joined in on a silent march held in Mumbai to send across a peace message and request the operators to keep the towers away from residential areas, especially the locations where schools and hospitals are situated.

Irrfan Khan is known to express his voice for issues he strongly feels about and so the actor came forward to show his support.

When asked Irrfan about this, the actor said, "We all need mobile phones to work in this day and age. However, our mobile network towers need to be planned with better consideration to residential areas, parks, schools, hospitals etc. This is a dire need with today's increasing health conditions leading to complications due to the radiation. Starting with simple symptoms like headaches, dizziness up to diagnosis of cancer as witnessed in the Ushakiran building case and numerous other cases. We can only create awareness and urge people to join us in this movement."