Indian religious sect faces dwindling numbers

Zoroastrian leaders using different ways – from speed dating to free housing – to encourage people to start families.

A community in India is trying to stop its population from becoming extinct, with its number rapidly falling.

The Zoroastrian population has been reduced to around 60,000 here, because career-driven professionals are having children late, or not at all.

Now their leaders are using different ways – from speed dating to free housing – to encourage people to start families.

Al Jazeera’s Karishma Vyas reports from Mumbai.

Source: Al Jazeera