The Town Hall strangled by red tapeAuroville
is seeing an increase in bureaucracy. The Funds and Assets Management
Committee proposes to enlarge its 12-page Code of Conduct for trusts
and units of the Auroville Foundation to a 40-page document: the Town
Development Council has come up with an empanelment process for
contractors in Auroville and has initiated a process for how to deal
with people who build without building permissions; the Entry Board
is facing official “Auroville Foundation (Admission and termination
of Persons in the register of residents) Regulations 2020; and there
is an increasing ‘imposition’ of regulations from outside
Auroville.Abha,
Christine and Tency, who all joined Auroville more than 40 years ago,
express their concerns to Auroville Today.
Abha:
We are seeing a movement which is centrifugal, widening and widening,
getting increasingly externalised and further away from the central
truth and goal. But this is the opposite of what Auroville should be
do...
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