AGM in Ahmedabad

Brig (Retd) Jahangir Anklesaria, president of the Ahmedabad Parsi Panchayat (APP) addressed a number of key issues concerning the community at the AGM (annual general meeting) of the APP held at the Parsi Sanatorium Compound, Navrangpura, on June 8, 2014. He announced the APP’s plan to hold a special general body meeting on September 7, 2014 to discuss certain important issues such as the setting up of an aramgah, shifting the Navroji Vakil Adarian and certain amendments to the rules and bylaws of the APP. A secret ballot would be conducted to decide these matters. He also mentioned that a new bore well was to be drilled in the Agiary compound so that important ceremonies like ijashni and the vandidad can be performed there, notes a write-up received from the APP.

A jashan ceremony preceded the AGM, performed by four young priests and attended by 60 community members who partook of the chasni after the ceremony.
The AGM commenced with a welcome address by Ervad Aspy Unwalla, joint honorary secretary of the APP. Firoze Daver, the other joint honorary secretary read out the minutes of the previous AGM held on June 9, 2013. The financial statement and balance sheet for the year ended March 31, 2014 had been circulated in advance to all members of the APP and were unanimously approved by the over 150 members present, the email reveals.
Nauzer Daruwalla, who provides meals at all the gahanbars at "impossibly low rates” and Bomi Sethna, a young lawyer who gives free legal advice to the APP were presented shawls. Firdose Zaiwalla, who readily volunteers to clean the dakhma supplying all the requisite implements at his own cost, received a gift hamper. Parvez Gandhi, another willing volunteer was given a cash award as was Babubhai Solanki, who completed 50 years of service with the APP.
Games for children, a few rounds of Tambola and a contributory dinner of ravo, akuri and chicken gravy with rotlis and egg pullav with masala dar concluded the evening.