Road construction problems

The construction of the Crown Road, ORR and various radials is running into problems as a number of private, temple or Poramboke (government) lands, which are necessary to complete the envisioned urban plan, have not yet been purchased. On the 4km-long Crown and some radial roads, the non-ownership of vital plots of private land has delayed the completion of the road, and the majority of the land needed for the ORR does not belong to Auroville, with some of it located inside local villages. The newly constructed roads are alleged to be of poor quality and to have inadequate provisions for rainwater runoff.