THE DONATION & GOVERNMENT GRANT HOAX: AUROVILLE
WHY PUBLIC SHOULD MONITOR DONATIONS GIVEN BY THEM TO AUROVILLE OR STOP ALTOGETHER?
13th February 2020
Dear Residents of Auroville, Government & Readers,
From our sources, we have some confirmed reports, some good, some bad and some manipulative politics played by the Power Corridor which has ruined Auroville. We have some unconfirmed news that the Government of India in light of so much corruption and mismanagement may reduce government grants for Auroville. The Power Corridor is using this wise and just decision (if true) to manipulate it and play politics yet again by urging the normal residents to work tirelessly to raise more donations for Land, Education etc. And at the same time stating that our work has brought dis-repute to Auroville and hence the donations are being stopped – going so far to state that food and water will not be available for the residents. The Truth is far from it.
Let us divide donations and grants coming to Auroville into the following categories:
a) Government Grants provided by the Ministries (Central Government)
b) Government Grants provided by the State Governments (Tamilnadu & Puducherry)
c) Public Donations at Matrimandir & Visitor's Centre
d) Company Donations through CSR for which companies avail 80G Tax exemptions
e) Donations through Auroville International Centers and international residents for tax exemption in their countries
Category A and B are through public taxpayers money, hence Auroville is responsible for the same. As seen the Government Grant Group of Auroville is filled with corruption and members do not allow procedural “utilization certificate” to administer the grants dutifully. Every Government Grant that has come to Auroville so far has been eaten up the Auroville Management and poor material for construction and for laying roads have ensued. We have already shown in the past how Auroville Power Corridor has unduly enriched themselves costing progress of Auroville. All of the grants given to Auroville so far has to be investigated by the CBI / ED.
Category C are also direct public donations (in small amounts but large in quantity) For example the Gold theft in Matrimandir is actually the money given by public who come to Auroville (Indians and Foreigners) Instead of helping the state police solve the crime to find out who has stolen INR 9.8 lkhs odd the Auroville Management has shielded the accused. Since the State police have failed to do its duty this FIR should be transferred to CBI for a thorough investigation.
Category D is Donations given by Companies for CSR activities and many companies like Bajaj and Tata donate to Auroville for exemption under 80G. Although the companies wish to avail exemption under 80G, they also have the responsibility to ensure that donations are used completely for the purpose for which they have been taken. Hence every multinational Indian and International Company should be aware of this as CSR means “Corporate Social Responsibility”
Category E is through international donors, both companies and individuals. Auroville Foundation has no clue where these accounts are who is taking these donations as per the reply in their RTI. As seen Auroville has over 36 trusts and sub-trusts for 3400 residents. Hence all trusts should be dissolved and all should be amalgamated into a single Trust – Auroville Foundation. There are also trusts which have Aurovilian as trustees but are not a part of Auroville, as such these should also have a forensic audit. And all international donations should be investigated upon for Hawala transactions including FEMA, FCRA violations, backtracking of money, donation fraud. Please note that donations taken from foreigners also falls under Indian laws when it comes to utilization of the donation.
Fooling Residents of Auroville & Public of India & the World
The Power Corridor has been fooling residents of Auroville stating that donations are reducing due to us. What the residents fail to understand is that the Power Corridor was the one who was eating all the donations so far as seen in the kingdom of private properties they have made for themselves. The Quality of Progress is hampered by undue enrichment of a select few. Whereas they tell the volunteers and Aurovillians to work free of cost for such campaigns and for Auroville so that they are in dual benefit of free labor whereas cheating and fooling residents.
As such we also urge the residents who are involved in the donation and fundraising projects to first ask the question why are the donations reducing? It is known from our sources that Auroville farmers are selling vegetables they grow in the land given by Auroville (Government of India) to Puducherry and Solar Kitchen buys their vegetables from Puducherry and residents pay for it also.
Art for Land Donation Hoax – Why should the public fund a land mafia due to which so much of violence has come in the area? Power Corridor works clandestine with the land encroachers and then asks money from the public to protect their lands?
FAMC Contribution Illegal – Kindly read the Auroville Foundation Act and rules of 1997, FAMC has been without a financial adviser from MHRD, hence the entire constituency of FAMC is illegal and it cannot administer nor collect contributions from residents. Knowingly they have been fooling Residents so far and should be charged with IPC 420 for illegally collecting contributions so far.
Purposely against social welfare - It has been seen that the Power Corridor has been against social welfare as if the donation funds were really used for education of villagers, their development and abolish poverty we would see much better developed villages around Auroville. The Power Corridor also does not wish the villages to flourish, because if they do then how will they collect donations showing poor villagers, Indians and run their campaigns of Tamil Local empowerment ? Auroville Power Corridor has collected enough donations in the name of the Tamil locals and have siphoned if not most, a big chunk for themselves according to our sources.
Some Residents have a feeling that this is not their concern and keep quiet in their houses. Then they should reflect within themselves why they are in Auroville? Surely not for parties and drugs and while away the rest of your lives and not work an inch towards the progress of Auroville - Without proper administration and law, how do you expect a Utopian City? Without order and discipline, Auroville currently is a lopsided banana republic. If the Auroville residents do not realize the Bigger Agenda of the Power Corridor, they will be lost in a perpetual state of denial and dream.
Don’t Dream – Realise…we still have hope for the Group Soul and True Aurovilians to speak the Truth.
We know the people behind and can submit the same but we feel that it is time the Central Bureau of Investigation does their job to apprehend the Power Corridor who are responsible for Jeopardizing the Entire Project.
Positive Note
For the major lacuna and confusion for the above is an extremely simple answer – The Government of India should ensure that Auroville a statutory body under the Ministry of HRD should follow all GFR and accounting laws of India. We are not against donations, in fact, we want the entire world to fund and nurture Auroville, but the money should be utilized for the flowering of the Utopian City, not for few Foreigners and their Indian goons to enrich themselves disregarding violence, murders, social human rights and trampling over resident’s lives to fuel their own agenda.
We urge all donors, Corporate, Individuals, Governments, International Donors to keep the above in mind before donating to Auroville – so that the money is administered properly.
Donations should be used for the purpose for which it was taken - progress of Auroville only
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