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Taj Mahal plans “insensitive”

5th August 2009

Plans for a Ferris wheel, cable car, a suspension bridge over the Yamuna River and rope walks at India’s iconic Taj Mahal have been condemned.

The Agra Development Agency (ADA) reportedly proposed the ideas in a bid to “improve the visitor experience”.

The ADA was reported as saying that there were plans for two ropeways – one linking the back of the Taj Mahal to the Mehtab Bagh (‘Moonlight Garden’), and the other linking Mehtab Bagh with Agra Fort.

The Ferris wheel is allegedly being modelled on the London Eye but is expected to be even bigger.

OP Jain, adviser to the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, says the plans are “insensitive”. “Tourism is not everything. The people who come to see the Taj are not the kind of people who like to go by ropeway or see it in front of a Ferris wheel,” he commented.

The Uttar Pradesh government has now denied that there were ever concrete plans for the ropeways and bridge.

Controversial plans to build a shopping centre between the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort were thrown out in 2003 following a public outcry.



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