Starting With The Taj Mahal, India Pledges To Make 100 Monuments Litter Free: The government pledged to end the use of disposable, or single-use plastic around the Taj Mahal. Moreover, the government has also promised to make upto 500 metres around 100 historic monuments plastic-free, starting with Taj Mahal.
In an event organised on Sunday at Taj Mahal, India's Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Mahesh Sharma along with United Nations Environment Head Erik Solheim and UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador and actor Dia Mirza, adopted 'Taj Declaration' that aims at making Agra, which is among world's top ten most polluted cities, free of plastic.