Mud pack therapy to be done on dome of Taj Mahal to remove yellowness

Taj Mahal, the 17th century monument in Agra is scheduled for mud-pack therapy on its main dome to remove yellowness from the white marble surface. As indicated by officials of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the process will take more than a year to complete. This is because iron scaffolding will have to be put all around the main dome.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 6 October 2016.

The therapy will be carried out by the ASI's science branch and it is part of a conservation plan that had been submitted to the Parliamentary standing committee on environment. It had raised serious objections over black and yellow spots on the marble surface, especially the minarets, during an inspection in April last year.
Conservation work on three of the four minarets has already been done. Work on the fourth minaret will start with the main structure.
The mudpack therapy session started in April 2015. That was after the Parliamentary panel conducted an inspection of the monument because an Indo-US study had claimed that black and brown carbons along with dust were giving rise to yellowing of the monument. It was repeated in September after hordes of insects left green patches on the wall.


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