Slew of complaints referred to investigation agencies

The newspaper The Hindu reported on August 7th that the Minister of State for Education, Shri Sukanta Majumdar, replying in Parliament to a set of questions about Auroville, had said that the Central Government has referred a range of complaints, including dubious land exchanges, encroachment, cybercrime and money laundering in Auroville, to the appropriate bodies / agencies. Representations and complaints dealing with land exchanges have been forwarded to the Auroville Foundation to examine their merits and place them before the Governing Board, which is the competent authority to recommend a suitable course of action, the Minister said.