JNNURM - GANGAPEDIA

City Development Plan for Agra City in the state of Uttar Pradesh under JNNURM
• Creation of world-class infrastructure.
Identify stretches of lanes/streets/roads having heritage buildings for suggesting ways of
organizing them as a part of heritage walk.
The study and documentation of the heritage buildings/monuments, protected and unprotected
monuments in Agra need to be done. The heritage zones should be clearly identified in the maps,
with distance from city center, accessibility, location etc. The monuments should be selected for
conservation as per the archaeological principles. These heritage sites can be developed as tourist
attraction with all the facilities like improving the roads, footpaths, railings, signages, street lights,
monument description boards, public conveniences, public telephone booths, information kiosks,
vehicular parking, garbage bins, landscaping, street furniture, etc.
The surroundings of the Taj Mahal, which is the world heritage site, should be improved. The
adequate facilities like improving the roads, footpaths, railings, signages, street lights, monument
description boards, public conveniences, public telephone booths, information kiosks, vehicular
parking, garbage bins, landscaping, street furniture, etc.
• International accessibility through airways
• Integration of various tourist attraction places
• Inducing longer stay of tourists at Agra
• Identification and development of tourist products other than Heritage Tourism
• Diversification of tourism products to attract more tourists through a varied consumer choice.
• Comprehensive development of tourist destination for business-cum-pleasure.
• Creation of adequate facilities for budget travelers.
• Creation of tourism infrastructure, so as to preserve handicrafts, folk arts and Indian culture
and thereby attract more tourists.
• Strengthening the existing infrastructure and developing new ones where necessary.
• Improve the environment of un-protected monuments and heritage buildings by cleaning and
maintaining their surroundings.
• Organize conducted tours of different durations involving different monuments, heritage
buildings, tourist bazaars, entertainment parks (attracting children) with facility of purchasing
one ticket at single counter. This may include suggesting guesthouses, hotels / motels for the
tourists’ night stay as well.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Considering the sector challenges and goals, robust strategies have been formulated to create the
world-class city infrastructure. The strategies for achieving the vision of the city are:
• Enhancement and Up-gradation of city infrastructure in terms of provision and delivery of
municipal services (water supply, sewerage, surface water drainage, solid waste
management, roads, bridges, streetlights, community facilities and other civic urban
infrastructure and services).
• Improving / achieving the maximum benefits of tourism economy by creating additional
infrastructure and additional facilities for increasing number of tourists.
• Adopt GIS mapping for utility planning and management
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