{"id":301255,"date":"2018-08-08T08:59:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T08:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301255"},"modified":"2018-08-08T08:59:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T08:59:38","slug":"asi-increases-entry-fee-to-taj-mahal-other-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asi-increases-entry-fee-to-taj-mahal-other-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"ASI increases entry fee to Taj Mahal, other monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300305 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tajmahal-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"376\" 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: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/>Domestic and foreign visitors to Taj Mahal will now have to pay an extra Rs 10, and Rs 100 respectively from <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_730511830\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday<\/span><\/span> as ASI has revised the entry fee to the monument.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A foreign tourist will have to shell out Rs 1100, which includes Rs 500 toll tax collected by Agra Development Authority (ADA) and domestic tourists will have to shell out Rs 50, in place of Rs 40, which they were paying earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, SAARC Countries visitors will have to pay Rs 540, including Rs 500 toll tax charged by ADA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the other hand, for B Category ASI protected ticketed monuments which includes, Akbar\u2019s Tomb Sikandra, Mariyam Tomb Sikandra, Ram Bagh, Itmad-Ud-Daula, and Mehtab Bagh, the rates for Indians have increased from Rs 15 to Rs 25 and for foreigners from Rs 200 to Rs 300. \u00a0An additional discount for cashless payments has been added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is for the second time that the entry fee to Taj Mahal and other ASI protected monuments has increased in the last two and a half years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Agra, the A category monuments include Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, and Agra Fort.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic and foreign visitors to Taj Mahal will now have to pay an extra Rs 10, and Rs 100 respectively from Wednesday as ASI has revised the entry fee to the monument. A foreign tourist will have to shell out Rs 1100, which includes Rs 500 toll tax collected by Agra Development Authority (ADA) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[2386,4066,3580,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301255"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301256,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301255\/revisions\/301256"}],"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=301255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}