{"id":300304,"date":"2018-07-12T06:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T06:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300304"},"modified":"2018-07-12T06:32:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T06:32:19","slug":"preserve-taj-mahal-or-demolish-it-supreme-court-tells-up-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/preserve-taj-mahal-or-demolish-it-supreme-court-tells-up-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserve Taj Mahal or demolish it,\u00a0 Supreme Court tells\u00a0UP\u00a0government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300305 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tajmahal-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/tajmahal-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/tajmahal-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/tajmahal.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on July 11 pulls up centre and Uttar Pradesh Government over the issue of protection of the Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world, and warned the government over its failure to produce a vision document which would preserve the monument of love for posterity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cYou (Government) can shut down the Taj. You can demolish it if you like and you can also do away with it if you have already decided,\u201d SC Bench remarked on the carelessness on the part of government towards protecting the heritage monument.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cUttar Pradesh (Government) is not bothered. No action plan or vision document has come yet. Either you demolish it or you restore it,\u201d the Bench observed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SC bench, comprising justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta, has been repeatedly asking the centre and the state governments to produce a blueprint to ensure that the Taj survives more than the predicted 400 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bench said it will take up the matter on a day-to-day basis from\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1457425570\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 31<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pollution is the major reason harming the heritage site by causing the monument to turn yellow over the years despite the court\u2019s continuous monitoring efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Additional Solicitor General Nadkarni said, \u201cCentre has taken a serious view of the matter. The committee has been set up that will find out the exact source of pollution in and around Taj. Three to four months are required for the report to be prepared.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The apex court asked the Uttar Pradesh government in December 2017 to come up with a \u201cdetailed and comprehensive vision document\u201d that would protect the Taj for at least another couple of centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on July 11 pulls up centre and Uttar Pradesh Government over the issue of protection of the Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world, and warned the government over its failure to produce a vision document which would preserve the monument of love for posterity. \u201cYou (Government) can shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[134,3580,283,2960],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300306,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300304\/revisions\/300306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}