"Callous negligence on the part of the regulating agencies and citizens in emerging urban clusters of India is the primary cause of man-made disasters." This was the consensus of a meeting of green activists and environmentalists on .
Restrictions on firecrackers temporarily helped bring the noise pollution level down in Agra, but the two-hour window neutralized the gains made in the preceding two days.Air pollution levels caused by dust, vehicular emissions, and fireworks .
Since the Supreme Court took up the PIL of MC Mehta on pollution threats to the Taj Mahal in 1993, thousands of crores of rupees have been spent in the Taj Trapezium Zone on controlling pollution, but the results are not visible to the public.
When people in Agra learnt from daily newspapers on Tuesday morning that the city ranked third among the most polluted cities in India, nobody was amused. Rather a range of questions began doing the rounds questioning the claims of government .