The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to create a comprehensive plan to safeguard the environment and its surroundings in the Taj Mahal and keep it for the next four hundred years, not for one generation. This directive was given by the bench of Justice Madan B.Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta. With this, the bench also termed the steps taken by the Uttar Pradesh government to be taken as 'ad hoc' for the conservation of the Taj Mahal and its surrounding environment.
The state government said that it has asked to make plans with the School of Planning and Architecture, but the court said that in this scheme experts of culture, history, archeology and other areas should also be included.
Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta urged the bench to advise the petitioner MC Mehta and advocate ADN Rao, instead of experts, because Mehta has 33 years of experience in environmental matters. On this, the court said, "How can you keep the people of the country from planning (planning). This (planning) can not be in closed room."
The bench said that the monument should be protected not just for one generation but for the next 300 to 400 years. In response to the arguments of Tushar Mehta, the court said that there is no need to plan a bureaucratic plan but to make a comprehensive plan. there's no rush. An interim report can be given right now. What you need to make, it will last for four hundred years.
Pointing towards the fact that seventy percent of the plants that were planted have been destroyed, the court said, "If you do not have any plans and you take such ad hoc measures, then such things happen." "
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