Tourists at the Taj Mahal may not have to stand in long queues to gain entry, from August this year.
Worried about the negative response among tourists, especially the foreign ones, by the delay in ticket buying at the Taj Mahal, the Archaeological Survey of India has decided to introduce e-ticketing facility at the monument by the end of July or the first week of August.
Talking to Business Standard, S K Sharma, assistant superintending archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Agra, said 12,000-15,000 tourists visited the Taj each day and a tourist had to stand in the queue for 10-15 minutes outside the monument gate.
To provide a quick solution to this problem, he said the ASI had decided to introduce the Metro railway-style e-ticketing system at the Taj Mahal, apart from some other important monuments in Delhi, where a tourist could buy a ticket from an automated ticket-vending machine and enter the monument by inserting the ticket in a slot built in a turnstile gate.
He said once used, the ticket would be marked as unusable and it would have kept by the visitor as long as he was inside because it would be needed to activate the exit gate also.
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