Completion of the Masterplan or a Smoke Screen?
High hopes and many promises have been given by the Government of India for 2 years and the newly appointed active IAS Secretary Dr. Jayanti S Ravi has also boldly announced her agenda. A press release was given in The Hindu setting the target of completion of the Masterplan ( perspective 2025 )
Although, how does the GOI wish to put this Herculean task in motion is a mystery. Confidence in the Auroville Foundation is below zero with regards to the Resident Assembly and the Public. As many Aurovilians have retorted, the job of the Auroville Foundation is to cover up and ensure that news of corruption does not leak out in the public domain. The new Secretary wonders why Aurovilians cannot rise and have Aurovilian spirit, she should look at her own house first. 'All' Governments have only lent support to corrupt trustees for decades, keeping the Masterplan at a moot point and supporting thievery of Working Group Members. How do they imagine foreigners with visas at their hands, along with mafia connections, to speak up?
Let us look at the staff of Auroville Foundation, a statutory body under the Ministry of Education, and their accolades so far. The powerful lobby ensures that this old team (12-15 yrs) is retained, as they are architects and pioneers of the Auroville way of functioning for decades. Secretaries come and go, and their duty is to make the Secretary powerless and misguide them.
Srinivas Murthy, the accused officer cum Under Secretary has his hands in manipulating books of accounts, land document fabricators, and being a spokesperson of the mighty trustees in front of the Government of India. He has also been a key player to ensure that the Light for All report was sent to the Ministry of Education without following the Governing Board's decisions. He also passed a Gazette that allows Aurovilians to hold private property in the Masterplan area and said it is mere oversight on his behalf. If so, he hasn’t retracted the Gazette and also notably told the Residents around 6-7 months after it has been published. He has further never addressed any human rights violations in Auroville and states that they cannot interfere in the matters of the Working Committee. The other Finance officer had categorically stated in a phone recording that all allegations stated are true. The same finance officer is also a conduit between the C&AG and the trustees to manipulate accounts and advises the unit-holders on how to manipulate. Lastly, the PA of the ex-chairman, Dr. Karan Singh is now the PA of the Secretary of Auroville. He was on the payroll of the Foundation but was working diligently in Delhi with Dr. Karan Singh, up to 6 months after his term ended.
These public officers do not enjoy any special status and are culpable for criminal action under relevant sections of the Anti Corruption Act read with the Civil Services Act and Dereliction of Duty.
The Resident Assembly is a quagmire of adolescent behavior, uncouth hooligans, hippies, uneducated sheep who are headed by the same Shepherds. It is but the biggest spiritual scam in the world, with a parallel economy run by individuals to amass wealth for themselves with a façade to show that Auroville belongs to nobody in particular to amass donations. Auroville also runs its own propaganda wing “Auroville Outreachmedia” which spins out hyperbole stories to amass donations for the trustees. It also spins out stories against the GOI and its actions and blames anyone who questions the institution, since they have no sense, no truth, and hide behind stories of plants and trees, with no self-reflection.
Aurovilians in the Working Groups feel they are above the Auroville Foundation Act, above Auroville Rules & Regulations, above principles of the Mother, and power and positions are more important than the Dream. We call it the "Working Group Syndrome"
Working Groups are also Aurovilians with vested interests who have siphoned crores of money & diverted donations to their projects & shell trusts across India without any approval of the Resident Assembly or the Governing Board. They are also the same individuals who are against the confirmation of the Masterplan. Auroville Working Groups has snatched away properties of many in the past, and when their properties are discovered, the Auroville Foundation goes out of its way to cover up for them. Notably, the current Working Committee was elected after the ballot boxes of the voting were broken into. A sham investigation is run by Aurovilians themselves who are not declared as public servants, and an Aurovilian Hemant Lamba who is a caretaker of GOI grants gives guidance to the newly joined Secretary. It is also seen that an Aurovilian Mr. Carel Theime, accused of human rights violations, protecting pedophiles, threatening Aurovilians, amassing wealth through Varuna Project, and an architect of land and economic offenses, is now trying to get into the Governing Board. He also dares to use the lobby to insult other bureaucrats in the past, for doing their duties.
Aurovilians live in the falsehood of spiritual ego and feel people are not watching and not documenting, and live in a belief that the so-called ‘special status’ extended by a lobby of Dr. Karan Singh is going to rescue them from disasters. This pile of unshakeable nexus is made by the consistent encouragement of thievery received by Dr. Karan Singh, hiding under cloaks of spiritual consciousness and a human experiment.
With the old team of the Auroville Foundation retained, no action of trusts who have siphoned donations and just false promises given, does this give confidence to the public or Aurovilians or followers of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother's Dream ?
It only seems that the GOI is interested to insert their trustees in the economic nexus, and due to the greater respect of Dr. Karan Singh & his relation Jyotiraditya Scindia, now the Civil Aviation Minister (ex-Congress), the nexus of his lobby continues.
With Sri Aurobindo's anniversary nearing, and the Hon. Prime Minister of India, Modiji intent on upholding the spiritual legacy of Sri Aurobindo and good governance, the actual work of the GOI is yet to be seen.
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