MUMBAI: Two Parsi consecrated clerics have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him to realign the up and coming Metro III rail venture saying it debilitates the holiness of two fire sanctuaries in south Mumbai, which would be an "awesome religious misfortune" to the group.
The two senior-most esteemed clerics of the Zoroastrian people group, Dastur Firoze Kotwal and Dastur KM Jamaspasa, have composed the letter to the head administrator on October 21, to enroll their challenge against the metro burrow arranged underneath or close to two Atash Behrams (fire sanctuaries) in south Mumbai.
The Metro III passage will go underneath the Wadia Atash Behram, which was blessed in 1830 at the Princess Road intersection and in closeness to the Anjuman Atash Behram (1897) over the street. These two are among the eight Atash Behrams in India.
"An Atash Behram (fire sanctuary) is a composite entire involving not only the blessed fire enthroned in the sanctum sanctorum, yet additionally incorporates, inside this definition, the entire building in which the awesome fire is housed. Amid the procedure of sanctification and enthronement, the heavenly fire is connected profoundly, to the earth underneath it, from which it draws sustenance," they said in the letter.
"Subsequently, you will find that our progenitors played it safe to secure and keep up this association and holiness," the letter read.
"The burrowing procedure could influence the water tables unfavorably, and there is a particular plausibility of the Atash Behram will go dry, in which case, none of the high customs of the Zoroastrian confidence can be performed in these Atash Behrams.
This would be an awesome religious misfortune to our group. This misfortune is plainly unsuitable to us as devout ministers of the group," they said in the letter.
Remarking on the advancement, Marzban Hathiram, a Parsi minister, stated, "As far back as the Metro-III proposition was mooted, we have been raising our worries, however sadly the Metro producers overlooked us and proceeded with their arrangement.
To begin with, they kept us in dull and procrastinated in outfitting the subtle elements of the undertaking under RTI and when they gave the duplicate of the arrangement, the development work for the Metro venture had started."
Prior to the burrowing work for the Metro III task began not long ago, Vada Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor of Udawada, an individual from the National Commission for Minorities, had communicated his fulfillment in the wake of meeting authorities from the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC).
Be that as it may, the two esteemed clerics have raised complaints over the Metro course.
Mr Hathiram stated, "We trust that the fire sanctuary is a one of a kind element. This complex is a holy substance, which is to be isolated from the ordinary world. In the event that you are burrowing under the ground, be it five feet profound of 50 ft, you are exasperating the facial development and holiness of the sacred premises."
Hanoz Mistry, proofreader of The Parsee Voice and a group extremist, said that out of all the five consecrated ministers of the group in the nation, four of them have opined that the passage is influencing the very holiness of the fire sanctuary.
A fire sanctuary isn't quite recently the fire in the sanctum sanctorum, however a composite entire alongside the working in which fire is housed, he said.
"There are just eight fire sanctuaries in the entire world and Mumbai houses four of them inside an outskirts of one kilometer. We can't sit very and see two of them getting influenced," Mr Mistry said.
He said they have propelled an online appeal to on change.org over this issue and got more than 10,000 marks including from non-Parsi individuals.
Whenever reached, a representative from the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) said the arrangement of Mumbai Metro III is neither underneath the sanctum sanctorum of Parsi fire sanctuaries nor it would influence them amid the development.
"Same is valid for all the Parsi wells along the Metro course. As of late, we had a chance to meet regarded Vada Dasturji Khurshed Dastoorji of Udawada, amid which we gave him a nitty gritty introduction on these issues. Dasturji was persuaded that the sanctum sanctorums of the fire sanctuaries and additionally the wells won't be influenced by the development movement. He communicated his fulfillment over the task," the authority said.
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