Parsi Khabar

Residents of the landmark Dadar Parsi Colony, the largest Zoroastrian enclave in the world, have won a six-year-long legal battle to allow only members of this tiny community to live in this ‘reserved area’.
By Nauzer Bharucha | TNN
The city civil court has granted a permanent injunction restraining the builder from selling flats to anyone who [...]

The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) and the Alert Zoroastrian Association (AZA) on Friday resolved the flat allotment issue for poor Parsis at Panthaky Baug, Andheri (East). The AZA had challenged the BPP notification, demanding Rs5 lakh as deposit money before allotting flats in Baug on sale.
The applicants, members of the Parsi community, informed the Bombay [...]

By Nauzer Bharucha, / TNN
In a city where a decent two-BHK apartment within 30 km of the business district is the exclusive domain of crorepatis, the Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP) will sell almost 75 flats in Panthaky Baug, Andheri (East), to low-income community members at a rock-bottom rate of Rs 2,400 a square foot. [...]

 
By: Alisha Coelho for Mid_Day
Bombay Parsi Punchayet hopes its new scheme to give priority in housing allocation to engaged couples with a wedding date will bear fruit
In a desperate attempt to boost numbers and save the community from impending extinction, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) will give first priority in housing allocation to Parsi couples [...]

Resourceful minority communities in the city are doing all they can to keep their flock together.
Close on the heels of Dawoodi Bohra spiritual leader Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin’s initiative to redevelop 270 buildings in Bhendi Bazaar and rehouse 25,000 residents—mainly Bohra tenants—in new buildings, the Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP) has now unveiled its own housing [...]

A retired Supreme Court judge is likely to be appointed as an arbitrator to sort out the issue of the allotment of 104 flats meant for poor members of the Parsi-Irani community in Mumbai by the Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP).
The Bombay high court on Tuesday asked the charity commissioner not to take any further [...]