‘Focus is on fast-tracking Perspective 2025’
The Hindu
Aim is to attain closest approximation of The Mother’s ideal with zero-to-minimum compromise: Auroville’s new Secretary
Jayanti S. Ravi, the newly-appointed Secretary of Auroville Foundation, is advocating a mission-mode approach to advance the vision of Mirra Alfassa (The Mother) for Auroville, the universal township she founded on February 28, 1968. Auroville’s Master Plan (Perspective 2025) is a blueprint, evolved from The Mother’s envisioning of a galaxy-shaped experimental township — the founder’s Auroville Charter conceived it as a piece of earth belonging to none in particular but rather to humanity as a whole, a place of unending education and a bridge between the past and the future. Under the 2025 perspective plan, Auroville would house an integrated global community of 50,000 with the Matrimandir as its soul.
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