Legal update

On August 11, Justice N. Seshasayee of the Madras High Court pronounced judgment in a case started by an Aurovilian challenging the decision of the Officer on Special Duty of the Auroville Foundation to reconstitute as many as 14 Committees or Units of the Foundation by a unilateral Office-Order, dated 12.04.2023. The hon’ble judge disagreed with the petitioner's contention that the Governing Board does not have any independent power to make changes without taking the Resident Assembly into confidence. He stated that the constitution of various committees for efficient discharge of duties and functions of Act is left exclusively to the Governing Board and therefore judged that the contention of the petitioner that the Governing Board ought to have consulted the Residents' Assembly before reconstituting the various committees is untenable.