Square Up For Green Infrastructure: Taj Mahal

Abstract

In the world no region will be entirely spared, the worst impacts are likely to fall most frequently on developing cities and in particular low-income cities in India like Agra. However, green infrastructure (GI) has been proposed as one of the good approach to soothe and adapt the built environment consequences of increased temperatures resulting from various sources. Impregnable surfaces, like roads, roofs and pavements move a variety of pollutants in the urban environment toward rivers, homes, buildings and mostly for monuments; and other supplies through gray infrastructure characteristic such as storm drains and pipes. The Taj Mahal is located on the right bank of the Yamuna River in a vast Mughal garden that encompasses a huge area, in the Agra District in Uttar Pradesh. It is the 1st wonder among 7 wonders of the world which is the stooge of built environment pollution effects of grey infrastructure (pipes, pumps, ditches, and detention ponds).Green infrastructure characterized by various management practices, including bio retention, swales, wetlands, forest buffers, and vegetated strips. All these have been implemented to reduce pollution and benefit municipalities responsible for pollution reduction programs. Green infrastructures leads to improve the gases load like nitrogen, phosphorous etc. and reduction in metals as well. All the above mentioned pollutants are harmful for Taj Mahal and river Yamuna as all the sources from grey infrastructure provoke global warming, greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion which is direct hazards for Taj Mahal. It recommended more programs for green infrastructure planning and implementation in Agra so that Taj Mahal is save and environment desist from activities that depletes the ozone layer and as well encourage the protection of available greenery in the environment. With this, the on-going global warming will seriously decline.