The voting at the Solar Kitchen
On Wednesday April 20th, the Residents’ Assembly Service
announced the results of a vote called by the Auroville Council on a new Entry
Policy and a new mandate for the Funds and Assets Management Committee (FAMC).
A total of 327 residents participated in the online and manual voting,
well-exceeding the quorum of 10% of the registered adult residents (1831
persons as on December 2015). The results showed the community’s desire for
change: both the Policy and the new mandate were approved.
The new Entry Policy
Sindhuja is one of the Auroville Council members who has put
in a lot of work to achieve these results. She is satisfied with the outcome
but would have preferred it if the vote hadn’t been necessary. “We wanted to
start the new Entry Policy without a vote of the Residents’ Assembly, as we
feel that voting pushes us into an outdated pattern, but this was objected to.
Some felt that we were working in an opaque and manipulative mann...
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