Monuments In The City Wear A Nearly Deserted Look As There Are Barely Any Visitors!

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No matter what season it is, there have always been numerous takers for visiting all the glorious monuments in the city. But for probably the first time, this trend has seen a hit as there is barely anyone willing to visit monuments that were recently opened again.

Deserted Monuments: A New Normal? | Centrally-protected monuments were opened for the public on 6th July by keeping all the social distancing norms in check. But these have attracted a scanty number of visitors. Heritage sites in the city saw a massive dip in its daily average visitors from 5,000-10,000 to just 100. These monuments opened after being closed for over 3 months with the number of visitors being capped at between 2,000 and 5,000.

The highest number of takers on the website of ASI was seen for Qutub Minar at 100-125 tickets being sold on a daily basis (which used to see approx. 10,000 visitors daily). Other monuments were also seen struggling here with Humayun’s Tomb getting a daily average of 50-75 (from 6,000 to 7,000) and Red Fort getting 30-40 visitors (from 8,000 to 12,000). Out of the 1,000 tickets available for a slot for Purana Qila, only 9 were sold on Saturday.

Officials feel the trend will continue until the lifeline of the city AKA metro services restart. Have you visited these monuments since they’ve opened?

Sourced Via The Hindu