It is not a surprise that the Green Bench of the Supreme Court has come down heavily on the government for the pathetic state of the Taj Mahal, the eighth wonder of the world. It is unfortunate that the authority in charge of the Taj Trapezium Zone was entertaining applications from industrialists to expand their factories into the protected zone despite a long standing moratorium from the Supreme Court.
With garbage strewn all over and the pollutants having discoloured the pristine white of the iconic mausoleum in Agra, one really wonders why the ruling dispensation at the Centre has failed to

