In a move that is bound to affect the day-to-day affairs of Doongerwadi, the Parsi community's Tower of Silence, around 240 employees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) will be on a day-long strike on Tuesday to protest the delay in payment of their bonuses. As a temporary fix, BPP has arranged for volunteers from within the community to replace the workers.

While a majority of the class IV employees, who are part of the Mumbai Mazdoor Union, work as sweepers, watchmen and gardeners, around 40 of them work at Doongerwadi as hearse drivers and pall bearers. They told the BPP Trust that they would go on mass casual leave on August 21, when they didn't receive their bonus by August 17, the Parsi New Year.