Timeline

Contrary to what Auroville Town Development Council (ATDC) had previously informed the Youth Centre and Bliss Forest stewards, bulldozers (from Auroville Road Service) arrive at…

Caretakers call out for help. More than a hundred Aurovilians rush to the site. The police is called by the Foundation. After being given all…

Residents reach out to the WC and the ATDC for explanation and gather to decide on a way forward. Three future Residents Assembly Decision-making meetings…

Three bulldozers and diggers are spotted outside the Foundation office. A late-night meeting is taking place, with people coming and going.

Shocked community members gather at Kalabhumi amphitheatre to discuss the agressive events. The consensus is that the events represent a kind of behaviour that cannot…

Youth Centre (YC) members call an emergency meeting to report the outcome of the talk with the Secretary, as they have been given only twelve…

A spontaneous meeting is held with the wider community at the Youth Center. No answer from the Secretary’s office so far. While the meeting is…

Darkali stewards make a presentation to ATDC for their proposal to develop the land in an ecologically sensitive manner.

An alternative, more environmentally-sensitive proposal for the development of Bliss Forest – that was first presented to ATDC on October 25 – was re-posted on…

Announcement of a first General Meeting for the process of the first RAD scheduled for 20th December: to put on hold the development of the…

More than 100 unidentified people, allegedly hired by an Aurovilian under the order of the Foundation Secretariat, enter the Youth Centre (YC) with two bulldozers….

Within two hours of the onset of the enforced destruction, all the buildings are down. Aurovilians watch in shock. More buildings were taken down than…

While some residents attend a meeting at the Unity Pavilion called by the Foundation, bulldozers, driven by people from a distant village (not direct neighbours…

The community is informed that at 6AM the following morning, bulldozing will restart at Darkali. Peaceful protesters continue to camp at the site overnight.

Four bulldozers, along with Auroville’s road service and members of ATDC arrive in Darkali. They start bulldozing work, while Auroville residents protest silently. 

A Stay Order is obtained from the National Green Tribunal, which orders that the felling of trees must stop for one week (until 17 December)….

Auroville Road Service team is seen working in Bliss forest again, with a parked bulldozer, a tractor and a trailer. They are accompanied by one…

Auroville Road Service proceeds with the marking for the high tension cable.

Auroville Road Service continue the work at Youth Center and Bliss    

Leveling of the road and digging of the trenches for HT cable is still going on at Youth Center and Bliss

The stay order has been extended until the next hearing on the 21st.

The trench work still goes on.

The Resident Assembly Service is holding a meeting in preparation for a decision-making to Stop all development work on the Crown until further notice from…

The stay order has been extended until the next hearing on the January 3rd, 2022.  

Against the stay order prohibiting any activities in the area, Auroville Road Service starts laying the HT cable in the trench, despite some trees standing…

The AVI board sends a second letter to Dr Jayanti Ravi, Secretary of the Auroville Foundation, and to the members of the Governing Board.

The ATDC informs the community that they will not take into account the ongoing Resident Assembly decision process to make a pause on the development…

The road works on the Crown have been resumed by the Office of the Secretary’s ‘ATDC’ and the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), this unauthorized…

Clearing work at Matrimandir, violation of RA processes and NGT court order. A large area inside the MM fence is being cleared. According to information…