President Droupadi Murmu has greeted the people on the eve of Parsi New Year Navroz. In her message, President Murmu said Parsi New Year Navroz is a festival of faith, joy and enthusiasm.

The Parsis, a Zoroastrian community, celebrate Navroz to commemorate their New Year which typically falls around the vernal equinox i.e. around March 21 and it is an important occasion for Parsis to come together, wear new clothes, decorate their homes, offer prayers and enjoy festive meals.

About Navroz

The most prominent Navroz celebrations take place in Maharashtra and Gujarat in India on account of a sizeable Parsi population living in the two states but though celebrated in March globally, Navroz arrives 200 days later in India and is celebrated in the month of August as the Parsis here follow the Shahenshahi calendar that doesn’t account for leap years.
Interestingly in India, people celebrate it twice a year - first according to the Iranian calendar and the second according to the Shahenshahi calendar which is followed by people here and in Pakistan.
In particular with relation to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Nowruz was inscribed as an element in 2009, and extended in 2016, on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, at the joint initiative of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Intangible Heritage	Region	Inclusion Year
Kutiyattam, Sanskrit theatre	Kerala	2008
Tradition of Vedic chanting	India	2008
Ramlila, the traditional performance of the Ramayana	Ayodhya, Ramnagar and Benares, Vrindavan, Almora, Sattna and Madhubani	2008
Ramman, religious festival and ritual theater	Garhwal Himalayas	2009
Chhau dance	Seraikella, Purulia and Mayurbhanj	2010
Kalbelia folk songs and dances	Rajasthan	2010
Mudiyettu, ritual theatre and dance	Kerala	2010
Buddhist chanting of Ladakh: recitation of sacred Buddhist texts	Trans-Himalayan Ladakh region, Jammu and Kashmir	2012
Sankirtana, ritual singing, drumming and dancing	Manipur	2013
Traditional brass and copper craft of utensil making	Jandiala Guru, Punjab	2014
Nawrouz	India	2016
Yoga	India	2016
Kumbh Mela	Allahabad, Haridwar, Ujjain and Nasik	2017
Durga Puja	Kolkata	2021