According to the Parsi Connect column by Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) chairman Yazdi Desai in the Parsi Times issue of March 4, 2017 the expenses for managing and running the Doongerwadi estate which comprises around 55 acres, five dakhmas, one chotra, 11 bunglis and housing for employees, is Rs 2.84 crores. Hence the cost of disposing a single corpse in the calendar year 2016 worked out to Rs 41,949 (Rs 2,84,00,000 divided by 677 bodies consigned to the towers in the January to December 2016 period). Desai also notes "my colleague trustee, Kersi Randeria, has taken upon himself the task of repairing the walls of the Bisni dakhma with the help of former BPP trustee Maneck Engineer, and in consultation with Khshnoomists Hanoz Mistry, Behram Dhabhar and Ervad (Dr) Rooyintan Peer.
A dakhma with solar concentrators
With the appointment of a new manager at Doongerwadi Vistaspar Mehta, Desai states that with the pallbearers’ cooperation, the system of dakhmenashini can be "back on track even without the vultures.”
"In the three operational dakhmas, there are enough ‘pavis’ for the bodies to be so exposed… for eight-10 weeks even given that each dakhma is ‘rested’ for a few months in a year. The direction is to educate and persuade the khandhias to use all the ‘pavis’ and proper supervision to ensure that the bodies are not pushed from the pavis into the bhandar until they are reduced to hair and bones.”
Desai mentions that when the BPP was formed over 300 years ago "it’s only objective was to look after and maintain the lands which are the foundation on which dakhmenashini rests.”