A new and improved method of removing yellow stains off the Taj Mahal could be devised in the coming days as university students from various countries have been posed this problem at an international science tournament under way in Agra.
The eighth International Natural Sciences Tournament (INST) of Russia began in Agra on Thursday, with India being represented by a team from the Mumbai University.
Other teams and jury have come from Singapore, Russia, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belarus. The three-day competition requires students to solve a dozen difficult problems in the spheres of medicine, biology, physics, and chemistry.
One of the problems is to propose a “new method” to remove the yellow pollution stains from the the snow-white cupola and the upper part of the Taj’s facade.
The tournament’s founder, Sergey Safonov, said the contest had come to India as there were many “under-evaluated talented students” in Asia, who could be helped to find their place in science and technology.
