NEW DELHI – Those wanting to see the main mausoleum at the Taj Mahal willneed to buy an additional ticket of Rs 200 from Monday.
Vasant Swarnakar, Archaeological Survey of India’s chief archaeologist inAgra, said domestic visitors will have to pay Rs 250 and foreign visitorsRs 1,300 to see the main mausoleum at the 17th-century monument.Thevisitors from SAARC countries will have to pay Rs 740 instead of Rs 540,PTI has reported.
The new ticketing system will help reduce the human load on the mainstructure.Visitors who buy the Rs 50 ticket would not be allowed to enterthe main mausoleum, but would be able to move around the Taj and see therear side, the Yamuna river front at the back.The Taj Mahal is consideredone of the finest specimen of the Mughal architecture.
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In 1983, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was cited as “the jewelof Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces ofthe world’s heritage.”
