Board of Services annual meeting

The Auroville Board of Services (ABS), in its annual gathering on August 13th, observed that service managers who rely on a community maintenance find this is too low to cover their basic needs, even with the provided in-kind component, which still does not cover expenses such as transport or housing. Currently it is hard to find people willing or able to take on a full-time responsibility running a service. Part-time work allows people the time to do other things to cover their material needs.

Many services are supported either with personal funding, fully or partly, or with additional funds generated from an income-generating part of the same, or another, activity. Centralised funding for equipment and infrastructure for services is missing in Auroville’s economic planning.