PANJIM: The leaders of the Federation of Anglo-Indian Associations (FAIAI) in India, along with Rev Fr Nicholas Dias, Chaplain for Anglo-Indians, who is originally from Benaulim, met His Eminence Filipe Neri Cardinal Ferrao, President of the Council of Catholic Bishops in India (CCBI) at the Bishop’s House, Altinho, here, on Friday.
The leaders sought the help and support of the Cardinal in identifying and reorganising Anglo-Indians in various parishes in the country. In these circumstances, the representations in Parliament and State Legislatures for Anglo-Indians were snatched away by the unreasonable attitude of the Government of India on the pretext that ‘According to Census report of 2011 the number of Anglo-Indians are only 296 an they are well off’.
The Federation of Anglo-Indian Associations in India is on an effort to conduct a survey to ascertain the number of Anglo-Indians across the country. By the intervention of Rev Fr Nicholas Dias, several Anglo-Indians have been identified in the Archdiocese of Delhi, and the Federation wants the support of CCBI to extend this into other areas of the country, said Dr Charles Dias, former MP and President of Federation of Anglo-Indian Associations in India.
