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Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar connected Friday, visited Auroville praising the township’s founding imaginativeness of planetary quality unity.
During the visit, the Governor met Auroville residents, the Auroville Foundation Secretary and members of cardinal moving groups and formally distributed individuality cards to residents, marking a important measurement successful supporting the township’s administrative model and shared future.
Mr. Arlekar expressed profound joyousness astatine fulfilling a long-held imagination of visiting the “sacred city” of Auroville, a sojourn made imaginable with the persistent encouragement of the Auroville Foundation Secretary.
“When I came present contiguous on with my wife, some of america felt that The Mother is conscionable astir present successful each this atmosphere. We could consciousness that she is here, blessing and guiding each of us. There is nary negativity here. Whosoever comes here, adjacent for a abbreviated while, volition instrumentality lone positivity from here,” the Governor said.
Linking Sri Aurobindo’s teachings to India’s broader relation connected the satellite stage, helium emphasised connected the past doctrine of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The satellite is 1 family).
He clarified that the conception of Arya is not a race, but a prime of goodness that indispensable scope each quality being.
Echoing Sri Aurobindo’s predictions, helium noted that India is rapidly stepping into its relation arsenic a planetary usher (Vishwa Guru), leaving down assemblage mindsets and returning to a culturally integrated strategy of existent education.
Mr. Arlekar said helium and his woman are profoundly invested successful the acquisition assemblage successful Goa, moving institutions dedicated to specially-abled children. He noted that Auroville stands arsenic a planetary benchmark for what integrated acquisition should look like, stating, “Anybody successful the satellite tin travel present and spot what the alteration is, and what the satellite is to be,” helium said.
Jayanti S. Ravi, Additional Chief Secretary of Gujarat State and Secretary of Auroville Foundation, Ministry of Education, Government of India, said that backed by the Auroville Foundation and the Governing Board, the assemblage is moving decisively to instrumentality its visionary “Galaxy Plan” maestro plan.
First envisioned successful 1968 by The Mother and designed by main designer Roger Anger, Auroville is actively transitioning from a conceptual blueprint into a thriving municipality reality.
Ms. Ravi emphasised that with the caller bid of administrative victories clearing the way since 2021, improvement has rapidly accelerated to grow the township’s infrastructure, economy, and colonisation portion establishing it arsenic the world’s greenest and astir sustainable city.
Auroville’s halfway moving groups — including the Auroville Town Development Council (ATDC), the Sri Aurobindo International Institute of Educational Research (SAIIER), the Funds and Assets Management Committee (FAMC), and the Working Committee — presented elaborate updates connected the accelerated growth.
