After the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) health department’s ‘clean chit’ to Doongerwadi was challenged by some Parsis, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) has decided to appoint Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) to carry out a health and environmental assessment of the 55-acre grounds, reported The Times of India of January 18, 2007.
"We are planning to sanction two lakh rupees for this study,” revealed BPP chairman Minoo Shroff. The BPP has been under fire from some sections of the community because of the health hazards posed by Doongerwadi where the system of dakhmenashini is not functioning as it should.......