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commerce, collective facilities, whether the lands belong to individual land-
owners, to panchayat, to temple authorities or to the Auroville Foundation.
B-
To formally agree with representatives of all these authorities on the location
of proper by-pass roads and to design the commercial areas accordingly.
C-
To establish a budget and identify funding sources, and to ascertain the
commitments.
D-
To set up a monitoring and coordinating organ with representatives of all the
parties concerned, with the mandate of faithfully serving the development
lines agreed upon, and being accountable for all expenditures and
transactions.
We hope this document will inspire all those who care for the present and future
impact of Auroville to collaborate in the realisation of the objectives we have
underlined, and thus to help ensure that Auroville will best fulfil its dharma. “
*On Auroville’s relationship with the public – From the FAMC to the
Chairman and Members of the Governing Board of the Auroville Foundation
– May 2001:
“Dear respected friends,
We would very much appreciate to be given some of your precious time in Auroville
so as to draw your attention on an area of utmost importance, which has yet so far
been quite neglected, the area of Auroville’s interface with the public and
particularly with these members of the public who are attracted to visit Auroville in
increasing numbers.
The FAMC has recently been solicited to form a special sub-group to assess the
potentials and existing conditions of this area of Auroville’s life, in terms of material
facilities as well as in terms of human resources, policies and orientations.
In its report to the FAMC this sub-group has emphasised the need for the
Governing Board to be appraised of the current situation, and has recommended
that the FAMC should seek the Governing Board’s full-hearted support and
endorsement for the active conversion of this apparently burdensome problem into
the very wonderful opportunity that it truly is.
For this is a given chance for Auroville to share not only a more concrete sense of
its ideals and evolutionary aims, but to help spread the conscious significance and
import of the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s work, of which Auroville is a part.
Many thousands of individuals visit Auroville in any week of the year, and it is
largely up to all of us to make of the impact this visit has on each of them a
meaningful and truly useful one, the consequences of which cannot be measured.
We are requesting you to read through the attached documents and to consider
with special attention the following points:
1- Although it is generally agreed in Auroville that the Visitors Centre and the
Visitors Service ought to be able to become financially self-supporting in the
physical context of the existing facilities, it is also clear to everyone that these
facilities are woefully insufficient and inadequate.