Four-Lane bypass threatens Auroville’s Forests

Markings left by a consultant working for the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) revealed that plans are afoot to design a 4-lane National Highway from Ayyur near Vilianur to the north of Kalapet before the toll gate. This road would cross the Auroville Green Belt for a length of 3.5 kilometres through the Forecomers, Pitchandikulam and Aurogreen areas and destroy decades of work, much of the Auroville Greenbelt, and come too close to the city area.

Discussions with the authorities have started to shift the road outside the Auroville Master Plan area.