{"id":121524,"date":"2018-01-04T10:16:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T04:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=121524"},"modified":"2018-01-04T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T04:46:21","slug":"restrictions-taj-mahal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/restrictions-taj-mahal\/","title":{"rendered":"Restrictions for Taj Mahal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Archaeological Survey of India is likely to restrict the number of tourists visiting the Taj Mahal to 40,000 daily, and put a three-hour cap on each ticket holder to tour the 17th-century Mughal monument in a bid to preserve the heritage site, a source in the culture ministry told.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ministry officials said that the sale of tickets &#8211; both online and offline &#8211; will be stopped at the 40,000 mark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121525 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wire-2006360-1514967475-600_634x439.jpg\" alt=\"Restrictions for Taj Mahal\" width=\"634\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of now, there is no restriction on the number of people entering the iconic monument complex at any point in time. The average footfall at the monument has increased at a rate of 10-15 percent per annum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many times, during peak tourist season and other occasions, the number of tourists inside the complex crosses 60,000 to 70,000 per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archaeological Survey of India is likely to restrict the number of tourists visiting the Taj Mahal to 40,000 daily, and put a three-hour cap on each ticket holder to tour the 17th-century Mughal monument in a bid to preserve the heritage site, a source in the culture ministry told. Ministry officials said that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[36898,62309,510,62308,9070],"class_list":["post-121524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-archaeological-survey","tag-culture-ministry","tag-india","tag-restrictions-for-taj-mahal","tag-taj-mahal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/india-limits-visitors-to-save-taj-mahal-620x400.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}