CISF personnel may use slingshot to tackle troops of monkeys at Taj Mahal

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel manning the Taj Mahal in Agra are undergoing training to use a new weapon, gulel, or slingshot, to tackle the troops of monkeys that swarm the premises. The move hasn't gone down well with local wildlife activists, who have raised their voices in defence of the simians citing provisions of the Wildlife Act, 1972. According to the Act, monkeys are protected species and no physical harm can be inflicted on them. But local residents continue to complain that civic authorities have failed to find a solution to the monkey menace. Last November, a