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As ideological tensions rise and residents challenge sweeping redevelopment plans, the Auroville Foundation has formalised a ...

The Supreme Court of India in Auroville Foundation v NK Mody & Ors, 2025 SCC OnLine SC 557 overturned a decision of the ...

be destroyed for the construction of a road envisaged in the plan. The foundation before the NGT argued that from its inauguration in February, 1968, Auroville was developed as an international ...

The judgement has affirmed that the Auroville Master Plan—originally envisioned by the Mother, approved in 2001 by the Governing Board and the Government of India, and notified in 2010—has ...

Auroville, though, had argued it had been developed ... The NGT then directed the Foundation to file a plan with respect to the proposed construction work, which included ring roads and industrial ...

be destroyed for the construction of a road envisaged in the plan. The foundation before the NGT argued that from its inauguration in February, 1968, Auroville was developed as an international ...

The counsel told the court that the exchange of lands was necessary to adhere to the Auroville Master Plan. They said, Auroville Foundation owns lands outside the designated 20 sq. km. area ...

The judgment noted that the Master Plan for Auroville, which included the contested roads, had been approved by the competent authorities as early as 2001 and notified in 2010. “The Tribunal has ...

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), which had barred the Auroville Foundation from carrying out developmental activities in its township in Puducherry ...

The foundation of Auroville was built on ideals of peace and unity, but it now finds itself entangled in conflict and unrest.