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run every 5 minutes. It would have a double lane and each train would have
a seating capacity for 100 people.
B-
At the entrance to the “Peace Area”, at the western end of the Matrimandir
Outer Gardens, or Park, a transit area is to be designed beyond which only
maintenance vehicles will be allowed. This transit area will contain a circular
drive from which will stem the western path to the Matrimandir.
C-
At the beginning of this path and on either side of it, two buildings of equal
size and matching design will serve to receive both the casual visitors and all
those individuals, Auroville residents and others, who wish to enter for the
purpose of concentration. Both buildings will duplicate facilities such as toilets
and baths and resting lounges, storage and locker rooms, libraries and
exhibition spaces.
Past these buildings, the western path will shortly become a bridge over the water
body that is to separate the Outer from the Inner Gardens, and only those who
have permission to either concentrate in the Inner Chamber, or to view the
Matrimandir at the special visiting hour, will be allowed to pass.
Other casual visitors will be guided into the Outer Gardens from which they will be
able to view the Matrimandir and its Inner Gardens area across the water.
Those individuals who will be allowed in to concentrate will be free to move within
the Inner Gardens area, to meditate in any one of the 12 Petals rooms, to remain in
one or another of the Gardens, or to ascend directly into the Inner Chamber: the
entire inner area will be kept silent.
.Part III: Co-development with Edayachavadi and Kuillapalayam villages.
Those two villages are located within the Auroville general area, along the main
public access roads: Kuillapalayam on the South Eastern side, near to the East
Coast Road, and Edayachavadi on the Western side, on the way to the main
Tindivanam Pondichéry Road. Between them they share the effects of the entire
public traffic to and from Auroville.
The public roads traversing both villages are too narrow and very poorly
maintained; besides, they are really the main streets and ought not to be used for
heavy traffic, as they cannot be widened without having to demolish many houses
and relocating their inhabitants.
Nonetheless, despite these inconveniences to their collective life, a number of
villagers have taken the initiative, in the recent years, to draw some advantage of
the situation, and have built up several shops and stalls along the way. The profits
are such that even some outsiders have now brought in investments and business
schemes to exploit this new opportunity.
The price of land in those areas has boomed and the profits of all the speculation
are not always, are in fact seldom used for the improvement of the villagers’ lives.
So that, on the whole, those beginnings of an apparent prosperity are less than
healthy, in terms of a balanced and harmonious development for the actual
residents of these two villages.
High priority status must be given to a concerted effort to reorient these
developments for the good of these villages as well as for the good of Auroville.
The following is a summary of the proposed steps to be taken in collaboration with
the village, panchayat and State authorities.
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To prepare a detailed Land Use Plan for those two areas, marking out sports
and playground facilities, hostels, agricultural and orchard sections,