Taj Mahal becomes first Indian monument with breastfeeding room

NEW DELHI: The Taj Mahal, built as a monument to a woman who died in childbirth, is set to get a baby feeding room in a first for India where conservative attitudes toward public breastfeeding mean nursing mothers are often shamed and told to cover up. Vasant Kumar Swarnkar, official at the Archeological Survey of India in Agra city - home to Taj Mahal - said the baby feeding room would be set up by July to help the “millions of mothers who visit with their babies”. Public breastfeeding still carries a social stigma in India.