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- Functioning.
The team should meet formally once a week, and maintain contact on a daily basis
with the Secretary of the Auroville Foundation.
It should be represented on the Development Group, on the FAMC and on the
Representatives Group.
All policies should be clarified, confirmed and agreed upon by consensus.
The team should meet once a month with those who are involved in fund-raising.
A formal report of all on-going transactions must be presented monthly to the
FAMC, where priorities must be worked out.
The team must make sure that at least 2 of its members are constantly available at
its office to meet with villagers, one of them at least being fluent in Tamil.
The office must have a proper welcoming space to receive these people, and files
must be available containing all information regarding each Auroville land. (The
Land Service must not exclusively depend either on its computer or on any one
person to store all information.)
Part of the job is to oversee the entirety of Auroville lands and to ensure that they
are properly looked after, maintained and kept free from any encroachment and
misuse.
The Land Service can initiate no legal proceedings without the prior agreement of
the FAMC and of the Secretary.
Whenever necessary the Land Service may seek the Secretary’s help, or anyone’s
help in Auroville, for negotiations, and advice in cases of litigations.
Before any new development takes place on Auroville land, the Land Service must
be informed and it must make its own assessment and recommendations.
If the Land Service finds the new development objectionable, it must be heard at
the FAMC, and an agreement must be reached before the new development takes
place. (By “new development” is meant, besides constructions, any new planting,
new passageway, sport activity or excavation for the mining of soil, etc)
The Land Service must be given an overall direction, with targets for its work on a
long-term basis.
In the case of land owners who wish to transfer or sell their land to Auroville on
certain conditions, such as the obtaining of the “Friend of Auroville” status or the
right of usage, these conditions must be clearly agreed upon by all parties and be
binding.
The Land Service must speak the voice of Auroville, not its own separate voice.”
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