Origin from 2013
In 2013, India's Ministry of Minority Affairs launched the Jiyo Parsi scheme with the Parzor Foundation to counter the steep decline of the country's Parsi Zoroastrian population, which fell from roughly 114,000 in 1941 to 57,264 by the 2011 census even as India's overall population more than tripled over the same span. The scheme has two components: an advocacy component addressing cultural barriers to larger families, and a medical assistance component funding infertility treatment, including in-vitro fertilization, counseling and health support for young families.
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Start YearSourced to the subject's own account StatusSourced to the subject's own accountEstablished marks the creation of the scheme itself by the Indian government in partnership with the Parzor Foundation. It is not a claim about whether the community's population decline can in fact be reversed, a demographic outcome this atlas does not adjudicate. Learn More
How India Launched the Jiyo Parsi Scheme
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In 2013, India's Ministry of Minority Affairs launched the Jiyo Parsi scheme with the Parzor Foundation to counter the steep decline of the country's Parsi Zoroastrian population. That population had fallen from roughly 114,000 in 1941 to 57,264 by the 2011 census, even as India's overall population more than tripled over the same span.
The scheme took two forms rather than one. An advocacy component addressed the cultural barriers that were discouraging larger Parsi families, while a medical assistance component funded infertility treatment directly, including in vitro fertilization, counseling and health support for young families trying to have children.
Pairing persuasion with medical funding treated the community's decline as more than a matter of choice, addressing the fertility difficulties that advocacy alone could not solve.
What the 2013 Jiyo Parsi scheme changed for Zoroastrianism's spread in India was turning a demographic trend that had cut the Parsi population by half over seven decades into the target of a national government program, combining a cultural campaign with direct medical support for a community whose numbers government data showed shrinking every census.
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Zoroastrianism's map had nothing after 1979's Iranian Revolution and nothing at all about the diaspora Parsi community's own modern demographic history. Adds a dated institutional response distinct from the Iran-centered persecution events already on the map.
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