Extinction is one of the biggest concerns of the Parsi community in India, given their rapidly dwindling numbers. But the Parsis of Surat have bucked the trend.
In the last six years, the community here has added 200 more members, registering a substantial six per cent increase in population. This had made the Surti Parsis the forerunners in the battle for survival with even the Bombay Parsi Panchayat (BPP) looking at Surat for clues.
A report of the Surat Parsi Panchayat (SPP) says the population has gone up from 3,500 in 2004-05 to 3,700 in 2010-11. SPP believes its scheme of luring young Parsi men and women into wedlock early by offering them two-room flats in the city at a throwaway monthly rent of Rs 200 has paiddividends.
Since 2005, 36 couples were given the flats. They are proud parents of 65 children today. "Many Parsis married late because they did not have their own home," said Darayas Master, president of SPP.
"Others did not find the right match in the miniscule community, which had contributed to dwindling numbers. Now, they have a flat and a golden chance at shaping the future of the community. Even BPP has decided to emulate our flat scheme."
As many as 105 children in the age group of one to nine years have been added in the 2010-11 SPP census compared to 2004-05.
"I was engaged to my fiancee, but could not marry as I did not have a house of my own," says Eric Dutiya, 34, working with a private bank. "The moment the SPP started the flat scheme, I tied the knot with Yasmin."
He is the proud father of a oneand-a-half-year old Khoreman and five-year-old Jessica. Hosang Vesuna, a senior manager with an auto finance company, adds, "I was inspired by the efforts of our community leaders to arrest our dwindling population and decided to get married seven years ago. Today, I have two children."
Bpp mumbai must learn from Surat parsi panchayat. Mr. Cama had personally heard a question in his open canvassing meeting before the elections about why injustice is done for payment of 3rd child and why all parents are not paid Rs 3,000/- per month unilateraly. Still injustice is continued since last 4 months. He has not done anything for the 3rd child controversy. Bpp just pays peanuts to those 85 children who are born before 1st april, 2010 @ Rs 1,000/- per month and then they do not pay school fees for that child. Those children born after 1st april 2010 continues to get Rs 3,000/- per month. What an injustice. They spend crores of rupees in court cases, crores of unaccounted money in canvassing, lacs on election expenses and they cannot pay school fees for the third child. Why this double standards Mr. Dinshaw Mehta ?? Can you please clarify in your samast anjuman meeting where again you will show an expense of Rs 10 lacs spent for that day. Instead read parsi times and join facebook campaign for less food more facts. Really shameful Bpp.How Parsees will increase population if you cannot provide basic necessities as Housing also.
Bpp mumbai must learn from Surat parsi panchayat. Mr. Cama had personally heard a question in his open canvassing meeting before the elections about why injustice is done for payment of 3rd child and why all parents are not paid Rs 3,000/- per month unilateraly. Still injustice is continued since last 4 months. He has not done anything for the 3rd child controversy. Bpp just pays peanuts to those 85 children who are born before 1st april, 2010 @ Rs 1,000/- per month and then they do not pay school fees for that child. Those children born after 1st april 2010 continues to get Rs 3,000/- per month. What an injustice. They spend crores of rupees in court cases, crores of unaccounted money in canvassing, lacs on election expenses and they cannot pay school fees for the third child. Why this double standards Mr. Dinshaw Mehta ?? Can you please clarify in your samast anjuman meeting where again you will show an expense of Rs 10 lacs spent for that day. Instead read parsi times and join facebook campaign for less food more facts. Really shameful Bpp.How Parsees will increase population if you cannot provide basic necessities as Housing also.
Bpp mumbai must learn from Surat parsi panchayat. Mr. Cama had personally heard a question in his open canvassing meeting before the elections about why injustice is done for payment of 3rd child and why all parents are not paid Rs 3,000/- per month unilateraly. Still injustice is continued since last 4 months. He has not done anything for the 3rd child controversy. Bpp just pays peanuts to those 85 children who are born before 1st april, 2010 @ Rs 1,000/- per month and then they do not pay school fees for that child. Those children born after 1st april 2010 continues to get Rs 3,000/- per month. What an injustice. They spend crores of rupees in court cases, crores of unaccounted money in canvassing, lacs on election expenses and they cannot pay school fees for the third child. Why this double standards Mr. Dinshaw Mehta ?? Can you please clarify in your samast anjuman meeting where again you will show an expense of Rs 10 lacs spent for that day. Instead read parsi times and join facebook campaign for less food more facts. Really shameful Bpp.How Parsees will increase population if you cannot provide basic necessities as Housing also.
Population in Mumbai is decreasing day by day. because Bpp trustees are totally not interested to do any good for the community. We regret we elected wrong people at the right time. Lot of new election gimmicks are coming up every day.
Population in Mumbai is decreasing day by day. because Bpp trustees are totally not interested to do any good for the community. We regret we elected wrong people at the right time. Lot of new election gimmicks are coming up every day.
Population in Mumbai is decreasing day by day. because Bpp trustees are totally not interested to do any good for the community. We regret we elected wrong people at the right time. Lot of new election gimmicks are coming up every day.
bpp gave an affidavit in the honourable high court signed by mr. dinshaw mehta that bpp is paying rs 5,000/- per child per month. This is only fooling the honourable high court. To-day also, bpp pays Rs 1,000/- per month only for the third child assistance to all 85 families whose children were born somehwhere before 2005. bpp has funds to waste on vulture projects in crores but they don’t pay for educating third child at-all. they don’t do anything for living human beings at-all. no jobs, no houses, no education fees, no business loans- just nothing. the vulture project is totally an election gimmick for october, 2015. this is only to promote his son as a future bpp trustee. wait and watch.
bpp gave an affidavit in the honourable high court signed by mr. dinshaw mehta that bpp is paying rs 5,000/- per child per month. This is only fooling the honourable high court. To-day also, bpp pays Rs 1,000/- per month only for the third child assistance to all 85 families whose children were born somehwhere before 2005. bpp has funds to waste on vulture projects in crores but they don’t pay for educating third child at-all. they don’t do anything for living human beings at-all. no jobs, no houses, no education fees, no business loans- just nothing. the vulture project is totally an election gimmick for october, 2015. this is only to promote his son as a future bpp trustee. wait and watch.
bpp gave an affidavit in the honourable high court signed by mr. dinshaw mehta that bpp is paying rs 5,000/- per child per month. This is only fooling the honourable high court. To-day also, bpp pays Rs 1,000/- per month only for the third child assistance to all 85 families whose children were born somehwhere before 2005. bpp has funds to waste on vulture projects in crores but they don’t pay for educating third child at-all. they don’t do anything for living human beings at-all. no jobs, no houses, no education fees, no business loans- just nothing. the vulture project is totally an election gimmick for october, 2015. this is only to promote his son as a future bpp trustee. wait and watch.
gb. Have you not read the Shakespeare drama Julius Caesar, wher Mark Antony say ‘ Brutus is an honourable man and so are they all…”
Can you find out the reason why DPYA Industrial Section is facing closure. Why Masina Hospital is likely to shut shop.Vulture project is meant to divert attention from mediation proceedings in the banned? priests matter. You are correct when you say, wrong persons got elected and that includes Rabridevi from DPC who won on the basis of sympathy factor and who took her own converted sister to Rustomfram Agiaree but now talks of being Orthodox. I do not blame gluttons and freeloaders who wanted by thinking from their bellies. I blame the so called aristocrats for failing to stand in a line at polling booths.
gb. Have you not read the Shakespeare drama Julius Caesar, wher Mark Antony say ‘ Brutus is an honourable man and so are they all…”
Can you find out the reason why DPYA Industrial Section is facing closure. Why Masina Hospital is likely to shut shop.Vulture project is meant to divert attention from mediation proceedings in the banned? priests matter. You are correct when you say, wrong persons got elected and that includes Rabridevi from DPC who won on the basis of sympathy factor and who took her own converted sister to Rustomfram Agiaree but now talks of being Orthodox. I do not blame gluttons and freeloaders who wanted by thinking from their bellies. I blame the so called aristocrats for failing to stand in a line at polling booths.
gb. Have you not read the Shakespeare drama Julius Caesar, wher Mark Antony say ‘ Brutus is an honourable man and so are they all…”
Can you find out the reason why DPYA Industrial Section is facing closure. Why Masina Hospital is likely to shut shop.Vulture project is meant to divert attention from mediation proceedings in the banned? priests matter. You are correct when you say, wrong persons got elected and that includes Rabridevi from DPC who won on the basis of sympathy factor and who took her own converted sister to Rustomfram Agiaree but now talks of being Orthodox. I do not blame gluttons and freeloaders who wanted by thinking from their bellies. I blame the so called aristocrats for failing to stand in a line at polling booths.
@ gb If you are so sure about this why don’t you bring this to the notice of the Hon. High Court. All you have to do is file an affidavit giving the true facts. And if you do this all the Parsis will vote for you in the 2015 election against mehtas son.
@ gb If you are so sure about this why don’t you bring this to the notice of the Hon. High Court. All you have to do is file an affidavit giving the true facts. And if you do this all the Parsis will vote for you in the 2015 election against mehtas son.
@ gb If you are so sure about this why don’t you bring this to the notice of the Hon. High Court. All you have to do is file an affidavit giving the true facts. And if you do this all the Parsis will vote for you in the 2015 election against mehtas son.
I am once again informing you that I am not at-all interested in dirty politics. I am not at-all interested to file any affidavit in the honourable high Court. We 21,000 adult parsis of mumbai have elected 7 trustees of BPP under Universal Adult Franchise and we are bound to ask TRANSPARENCY to them. They never bother about ACCOUNTABILITY at-all.
U are right. This is diversion tactics to divert your mind from important facts. Godrej Baug Tower is half complete. Election Code of Conduct is still pending. Parsi Lying-In-Hospital is still pending. Renegade priests Case is still pending. Valsad Anjuman Case is still pending in the Honourable Supreme Court. There are 2,967 court cases still pending. Trustees do not have time to do any out-of-court settlements. trespassing and encroachment is everyday affair. No New housing allotments are given. No new jobs are given to unemployed. No new Entrepreneur Loans are given to start business. Third child school fees are not paid. All 85 families who have third child born before 2005 are still given Rs 1,000/- per month which is peanuts. More divorces are happening. More parsi girls are marrying to non-parsi boys because of various factors. Birth in mumbai are 300 in a year whereas deaths are 900 in a year. Couples do not prefer producing even one child. Counselling for divorce can easily be done. New housing constructions can be done. 5000 existing flats software can be made easily. Trustees do not have time to do all these except come on tuesdays and quarrel amongst themselves.
I am once again informing you that I am not at-all interested in dirty politics. I am not at-all interested to file any affidavit in the honourable high Court. We 21,000 adult parsis of mumbai have elected 7 trustees of BPP under Universal Adult Franchise and we are bound to ask TRANSPARENCY to them. They never bother about ACCOUNTABILITY at-all.
I am once again informing you that I am not at-all interested in dirty politics. I am not at-all interested to file any affidavit in the honourable high Court. We 21,000 adult parsis of mumbai have elected 7 trustees of BPP under Universal Adult Franchise and we are bound to ask TRANSPARENCY to them. They never bother about ACCOUNTABILITY at-all.
U are right. This is diversion tactics to divert your mind from important facts. Godrej Baug Tower is half complete. Election Code of Conduct is still pending. Parsi Lying-In-Hospital is still pending. Renegade priests Case is still pending. Valsad Anjuman Case is still pending in the Honourable Supreme Court. There are 2,967 court cases still pending. Trustees do not have time to do any out-of-court settlements. trespassing and encroachment is everyday affair. No New housing allotments are given. No new jobs are given to unemployed. No new Entrepreneur Loans are given to start business. Third child school fees are not paid. All 85 families who have third child born before 2005 are still given Rs 1,000/- per month which is peanuts. More divorces are happening. More parsi girls are marrying to non-parsi boys because of various factors. Birth in mumbai are 300 in a year whereas deaths are 900 in a year. Couples do not prefer producing even one child. Counselling for divorce can easily be done. New housing constructions can be done. 5000 existing flats software can be made easily. Trustees do not have time to do all these except come on tuesdays and quarrel amongst themselves.
U are right. This is diversion tactics to divert your mind from important facts. Godrej Baug Tower is half complete. Election Code of Conduct is still pending. Parsi Lying-In-Hospital is still pending. Renegade priests Case is still pending. Valsad Anjuman Case is still pending in the Honourable Supreme Court. There are 2,967 court cases still pending. Trustees do not have time to do any out-of-court settlements. trespassing and encroachment is everyday affair. No New housing allotments are given. No new jobs are given to unemployed. No new Entrepreneur Loans are given to start business. Third child school fees are not paid. All 85 families who have third child born before 2005 are still given Rs 1,000/- per month which is peanuts. More divorces are happening. More parsi girls are marrying to non-parsi boys because of various factors. Birth in mumbai are 300 in a year whereas deaths are 900 in a year. Couples do not prefer producing even one child. Counselling for divorce can easily be done. New housing constructions can be done. 5000 existing flats software can be made easily. Trustees do not have time to do all these except come on tuesdays and quarrel amongst themselves.
@ contra, wrong people got elected because aristocrats like gb and yourself refuse to stand for elections
@gb I am once again informing you that the trustees do not read this and so why don’t you go to the BPP on a Tuesday and make them transparent and accoutable for all your queries??????? Or stand for elections and clean the dirty politics. The Parsis need transparent accountable and clean Trustees like you. You and only you can be the change you want.
@ contra, wrong people got elected because aristocrats like gb and yourself refuse to stand for elections
@ contra, wrong people got elected because aristocrats like gb and yourself refuse to stand for elections
@gb I am once again informing you that the trustees do not read this and so why don’t you go to the BPP on a Tuesday and make them transparent and accoutable for all your queries??????? Or stand for elections and clean the dirty politics. The Parsis need transparent accountable and clean Trustees like you. You and only you can be the change you want.
@gb I am once again informing you that the trustees do not read this and so why don’t you go to the BPP on a Tuesday and make them transparent and accoutable for all your queries??????? Or stand for elections and clean the dirty politics. The Parsis need transparent accountable and clean Trustees like you. You and only you can be the change you want.
This is a cause for concern. More Gujaratis will try to pass themselves off as Persians, and with the injection of more Gujarati customs and traditions, the Zoroastrian religion will be diluted further.
This is a cause for concern. More Gujaratis will try to pass themselves off as Persians, and with the injection of more Gujarati customs and traditions, the Zoroastrian religion will be diluted further.
This is a cause for concern. More Gujaratis will try to pass themselves off as Persians, and with the injection of more Gujarati customs and traditions, the Zoroastrian religion will be diluted further.
You all please read to-day’s parsi times where it is clearly proved how dinshaw mehta did fraud with the community in allotment of houses to his relatives. Nepotism and guilty of violating principles of good governance. In the same issue, munchy cama states clearly ” During our allotment there, we made a mistake and there was some confusion when we alloted already occupied flats etc. ” This is very common mistake purposely done by various builders in mumbai which now even Bpp has started. Can you smell corruption. Bpp has only 5,000 flats. They can easily make a software for these 5,000 flats and find out complete details but they are purposely not doing it. He also further mentions ” Yazdi desai is becoming very nasty because we are opposing the aviary issue. ” If they cannot work peacefully and amicably, why not conduct re-elections and elect sensible honest people who will do something good for the living human beings then fighting only for vultures which are not even born. It is high time we conduct re-elections immediately on top priority. God Bless the community.
You all please read to-day’s parsi times where it is clearly proved how dinshaw mehta did fraud with the community in allotment of houses to his relatives. Nepotism and guilty of violating principles of good governance. In the same issue, munchy cama states clearly ” During our allotment there, we made a mistake and there was some confusion when we alloted already occupied flats etc. ” This is very common mistake purposely done by various builders in mumbai which now even Bpp has started. Can you smell corruption. Bpp has only 5,000 flats. They can easily make a software for these 5,000 flats and find out complete details but they are purposely not doing it. He also further mentions ” Yazdi desai is becoming very nasty because we are opposing the aviary issue. ” If they cannot work peacefully and amicably, why not conduct re-elections and elect sensible honest people who will do something good for the living human beings then fighting only for vultures which are not even born. It is high time we conduct re-elections immediately on top priority. God Bless the community.
You all please read to-day’s parsi times where it is clearly proved how dinshaw mehta did fraud with the community in allotment of houses to his relatives. Nepotism and guilty of violating principles of good governance. In the same issue, munchy cama states clearly ” During our allotment there, we made a mistake and there was some confusion when we alloted already occupied flats etc. ” This is very common mistake purposely done by various builders in mumbai which now even Bpp has started. Can you smell corruption. Bpp has only 5,000 flats. They can easily make a software for these 5,000 flats and find out complete details but they are purposely not doing it. He also further mentions ” Yazdi desai is becoming very nasty because we are opposing the aviary issue. ” If they cannot work peacefully and amicably, why not conduct re-elections and elect sensible honest people who will do something good for the living human beings then fighting only for vultures which are not even born. It is high time we conduct re-elections immediately on top priority. God Bless the community.
God will bless the community only when clean and transparent people like you and contradhongi (wish the community knew your real identity) stand for, fight and get elected. Otherwise re-elections will have no meaning and would be a waste of time and money.
God will bless the community only when clean and transparent people like you and contradhongi (wish the community knew your real identity) stand for, fight and get elected. Otherwise re-elections will have no meaning and would be a waste of time and money.
God will bless the community only when clean and transparent people like you and contradhongi (wish the community knew your real identity) stand for, fight and get elected. Otherwise re-elections will have no meaning and would be a waste of time and money.
Why should I waste Rs 1 crore for canvassing for elections and give free food. I don’t ahve such amount to be wasted.
Mr. Phiroze, I would have stood for election if I had ‘backing’ of somebody like Amdavadi Bill Gates on whose resources, two WAPIZ guys scrapped through. CLEAR- so now learn not to repeat the same nonsense. Why Mrs Desai could not succeed?
GB, Phiroze is right. Trustees do not read this blog. Though they read Parsi Times. I would not discopurage you from writing. Please carry on. At least the average voter will realize true worth.
Why should I waste Rs 1 crore for canvassing for elections and give free food. I don’t ahve such amount to be wasted.
Why should I waste Rs 1 crore for canvassing for elections and give free food. I don’t ahve such amount to be wasted.
Mr. Phiroze, I would have stood for election if I had ‘backing’ of somebody like Amdavadi Bill Gates on whose resources, two WAPIZ guys scrapped through. CLEAR- so now learn not to repeat the same nonsense. Why Mrs Desai could not succeed?
Mr. Phiroze, I would have stood for election if I had ‘backing’ of somebody like Amdavadi Bill Gates on whose resources, two WAPIZ guys scrapped through. CLEAR- so now learn not to repeat the same nonsense. Why Mrs Desai could not succeed?
Mr. Phiroze, I would have stood for election if I had ‘backing’ of somebody like Amdavadi Bill Gates on whose resources, two WAPIZ guys scrapped through. CLEAR- so now learn not to repeat the same nonsense. Why Mrs Desai could not succeed?
GB, Phiroze is right. Trustees do not read this blog. Though they read Parsi Times. I would not discopurage you from writing. Please carry on. At least the average voter will realize true worth.
GB, Phiroze is right. Trustees do not read this blog. Though they read Parsi Times. I would not discopurage you from writing. Please carry on. At least the average voter will realize true worth.