The Planning Commission has cleared a scheme to arrest the dwindling population of the Parsi (Zoroastrian) community, in what will be the first intervention of its kind. The Plan panel had earlier turned down the minority affairs ministry’s scheme to tackle the falling population of religious minorities.

The programme – called the scheme for containing population decline of small minority community – aims to increase the diminishing numbers of the Parsi community by a scientific and structured approach.

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