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Issue No: 361, August 2019

The threats to Auroville’s physical integrity

Privately owned hotel in the Greenbelt near Dana community, built without the required permissions.For many years Paul Vincent has been involved with trying to protect the land of Auroville. Here he gives his views on the present situation in which private developments in the Auroville area are mushrooming, and suggests what can be done about it. Auroville Today: How many private developments are there in the Master Plan area? Paul Vincent: There are more than 150. There are three types of developments. One is layouts for private housing projects, some of which are encroaching into the Green Belt or are close to the edge of the city. Those we are tackling with the authorities, without much success until now. Then there are developments like restaurants, hotels and guesthouses built by villagers. We have a lot of these commercial developments along the road from Kuilapalayam to Certitude, which means that many of them are in the designated Green Belt. Thirdly, there are some pr...
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Ashok J. menon, 18th Aug 2019, 05.46 PM

I am not too familiar with the Auroville Act and the transition of powers but If these acquisitions are in the designated green belt plan is the land ostensibly Government land and if so does not the Government need to control regulate land leased/owned? Isn't the pressure point to be applied by Govt. for achieving the objects of Auroville? J

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