The committee will challenge the SC order, and demand that the shopkeepers be heard before any decision is taken to ban commercial activity in Taj Ganj.
As part of the Azadi Ka Amrita Mohotsav celebrations, around 3,500 monuments in the country preserved by the Archaeological Survey of India will be visited free of charge between August 5 and 15. This rule will also apply to the Taj Mahal, said Union Culture Minister Gangapuram Kishan Reddy.
The Agra Municipal Corporation sprang into action after Lucipriya Kangujam, a 10-year-old Manipuri girl who claims to be a climate activist tweeted a photo of the Taj Mahal's back side littered with plastic waste.