Vishal Sharma / Agra October 20, 2008, 0:27 IST The diesel engine manufacturing industry of Agra provides direct employment to nearly 15,000 people, while indirectly it offers livelihood to about 100,000 local residents. But over the past decade, a number of factors has caused a slow erosion of the industry in the city. Of these, stringent pollution control norms on diesel generator sets and the recently imposed excessive taxation by the state government are considered to be the primary reasons responsible for the industry