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India plans to battle pollution staining the Taj Mahal yellow and green |
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by Deepak Subedi | 09-12-2018 13:48
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India has proposed a ban on plastics, polluting factories and construction around its 17th-century monument to love, the Taj Mahal, a government document showed, in a bid to stave off pollution that is turning the structure yellow and green. The white marble mausoleum is located around 210 km (130 miles) from the capital New Delhi in the northern city of Agra, which the World Health Organization rated in May as the world’s eighth-most polluted. In a draft document submitted to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, authorities in Uttar Pradesh state, where Agra is located, said they would ban all plastics, switch to electric and hydrogen vehicles, and boost the green cover within the precincts of the Taj, to fight pollution. “Replacing present-day lawns with tree cover as existed originally will increase the biomass,” the document read. This step would reduce water consumption to maintain the surrounding garden and boost the water table, besides trapping dust to reduce pollution, the draft added. India’s Supreme Court is driving the campaign to protect the country’s most famous monument, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. The document was submitted after the justices, in a fit of anger during a hearing two weeks ago, demanded that authorities either restore the structure or tear it down. One of the seven wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal is flanked by a garbage-strewn river and is often enveloped by dust and smog from belching smokestacks and vehicles. Environmentalists and historians have long warned about the risk of soot and fumes from factories and tanneries dulling the monument, which also faces attack from insects that stain its marble. “There have been various studies, various plans, but they have not been implemented in right earnest in a coordinated manner,” said Divay Gupta, an official of the non-profit Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH). The draft proposes an integrated environmental and natural heritage management plan, with a special focus on checking air pollution, besides river and water management and conservation. I salute Indian government for this beautiful work. I hope they can reduce pollution in great extent in Delhi area. Thank You |
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14 Comments
Greetings Deepak
I hope you are doing well!
Thank you so much for this report!
Keep writing
Green cheers
Regards
Hema
Posted 22-03-2020 11:05
Greetings deepak
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report.
I hope to read more from you.
Keep up with great works
Green cheers
Regards
Basanta
Posted 16-03-2020 04:02
Yes kushal i too visited India, yes there is great need of awareness of environment sanitation and pollution.
Posted 18-12-2018 22:04
My friends have recently visited India and explained about the lack of sanitation and pollution increasing around the Taj Mahal region too.
Posted 14-12-2018 00:03
Hello
Gyeongrin mentor, Namaste
Hope you are fine and healthy there in Korea
Not only government we citizen also have responsibility to save our environment,community,nation and earth.
Thanks for you comments.
Posted 13-12-2018 20:47
Hello Joon Ho Mentor, Namaste
Yes Indian government is giving more attention towards pollution noways, that's great news.
Yes mentor,we need to get focused on environmental pollution and its progression, preventing further problems of it.
Thanks for your comments.
Posted 13-12-2018 20:20
Hello Israel Adeoye, Namaste from Nepal
Thank you for your comments,
Yes we should thank Indian government.
Posted 13-12-2018 20:15
Hello Deepak!
Evironpolitics is always a GOOD news! Protection of the environment is a common cause and everyone's responsibility. This political dicision is helping the people motivate into practice. There are many countries that have serious environment problems. Political ways are somehow fundemental to settle something. And I think environment problems is also included in this way. And it is serious as much.:)
Thanks for your report!
Posted 12-12-2018 23:00
Hello Deepak, Indian government seems to pay a lot of attention onto its monumental place of India :)
Environmental pollution directly affects everything nearby but apparently its environmental effect is a sign for all of us acknowledging it and understanding it as 'vague but certain type of meaning'. For such reason, we need to get focused on environmental pollution and its progression, preventing further problems of it :)
Existent problems also need to get removed out, so we can live in a better society of course.
Thanks for your report concerning Indian case!
Posted 12-12-2018 22:41
Deepak,
A move to stopping any form of environmental pollution is a very joyful news. It is the responsibility of the government to protect and preserve the culture and historical structures in their country. Thanks to the Indian government for such move.
Chandan's comment was an addition to the report too.
Thanks for the report.
Posted 11-12-2018 17:34
Hello
Chandan Kumar, Namaste from Nepal
I was unaware about M.C Meheta sir, thank you for introducing him
Thank you for your comments.
Posted 10-12-2018 23:15
Hello Rosa, Namaste
Hope you are fine fit and healthy.
umm, Lawn help to make beautiful place than tree, lawn is attractive and more pleasing than trees so they cut trees before but now they realized the importance of trees on related to pollution and water, so they are now planting trees.
When i visited Taj Mahal last year i saw very less trees in the garden, yes there were small beautiful flower but large trees were less, i am glad that they are planting trees.
Thank you for going through my report and for asking what you we curious about.
Thank you
Posted 10-12-2018 23:14
This is all about effort of M.C.Mehta sir.
Posted 10-12-2018 08:15
Hey there Deepak!
I really commend the nation of India for finally putting up a defence that will safeguard the Taj Mahal. my only question is Why did they remove the trees in order to add more lawn because grass consumes more water, I am glad that they've reverted back to planting more trees as you were correct that it will help with the water table.
Thank you so much for the wonderful report! It shared some light on how the Indian government is now shedding some light to eradicating air pollution water pollution and plastic pollution in this state.
Lovely report!
Posted 10-12-2018 01:58