Decisions of GB-FAMC not recognized

The RA-Working Committee and the RA-Town Development Committee sent a joint note to the community advising to disregard notices sent by the GB-FAMC with the request to vacate at the earliest the Auroville assets they are stewarding to make way for roads or ‘lines of force’. The members of these working groups observed that it is not in the direct purview of the GB-FAMC to take on matters of planning and development and that the ATDC constituted by the GB under Section 16 of the Auroville Foundation (AVF) Act, which had been directing such work, has been declared invalid by the Madras High Court judgment of 15th March 2024. The two working groups do not recognise the decisions taken by the GB-FAMC or by the GB-ATDC.