MUMBAI, December 28: President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the 10th World Zoroastrian Congress on the theme “Zoroastrianism in the 21st Century: Nurturing Growth and Affirming Identity” today at Mumbai. Speaking on the occasion, the President stated that it was with happiness that he was reiterating the well known fact that whether it was in the world of business and industry, or art and letters, leading our defence forces or breaking new frontiers in the field of advanced science and technology, the Zoroastrian community in India had always extended itself and reached the highest echelons of achievement and success. The President said that while the demographic statistics indicated that the Zoroastrian community in India is declining by about 10 per cent every decade, he was optimistic that this trend could be arrested.
