Published: December 2023 (2 years ago) in issue Nº 413
Keywords: Community Connect, FO Working Committee, Budget Coordination Committee (BCC), Auroville Town Development Council (ATDC) / L’Avenir d’Auroville, GB-FAMC, FO RAS (Residents’ Assembly Service), Court cases, Register of Residents (RoR), HUDCO project, Line of Goodwill, Line of Progress, Habitat housing project, Aurovilian maintenances, New Birth housing project, Tamil Nadu Forest Department and Green Belt
Foundation groups open meeting
On 18th November, a meeting was organised by Community Connect for the four working groups that work with the AVF – the WC, the FAMC, the ATDC and an alternative RAS – to make presentations and answer questions from community members. An attendee noted that 40 people were present and the information shared included that there are 22 court cases involving the community today (3 initiated by the Foundation, 10 by individual Aurovilians); 90 people have still not filled out their application for the Register of Residents; 90% of visas are granted for the length of time requested; HUDCO has proposed to finance a building with 300 rooms and 1000 beds for volunteers; while four new big housing projects are ready to be implemented, to be financed from loans: Line of Progress, Line of Goodwill, Habitat and New Birth (individual family houses); and the reason that maintenances in the Greenbelt have been cut is that the Tamil Nadu Forest department said that for our acreage they would only employ 12 people while we had over 100 workers and Aurovilians receiving support.