{"id":25644,"date":"2025-03-01T07:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25644"},"modified":"2025-04-07T19:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:58:49","slug":"auroville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/auroville\/","title":{"rendered":"Auroville"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Auroville Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Auroville celebrated its 57th birth anniversary with bonfire meditation at the Amphitheatre, Matrimandir, recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Auroville<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Auroville is an <strong>experimental international township <\/strong>in <strong>South India (in Tamil Nadu<\/strong>, near Pondicherry) where thousands of <strong>residents from over 60 countries<\/strong> are exploring <strong>alternative ways of living<\/strong>, working, and being together peacefully.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>founded by Mirra Alfassa,<\/strong> known as the <strong>\u2018Mother\u2019<\/strong>, the <strong>spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo,<\/strong> on the 28th of February, <strong>1968<\/strong>, as an international cultural township.<\/li>\n<li>It was designed by the famous a<strong>rchitect Roger Anger.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the<strong> largest and oldest surviving international intentional community<\/strong> in the world.\n<ul>\n<li>It has flourished from a barren desert to a 3,000-acre township and bioregion in which more than 3 million trees have been planted, home to rich biodiversity, 9 schools, multiple social enterprises, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Auroville is a growing community of <strong>2,700 people from 50 nations, <\/strong>and the vision for Auroville is that it <strong>belongs to nobody in particular but humanity as a whole.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Aurovilleans, <\/strong>as they call themselves, live together on the <strong>principles of peace, harmony, sustainable living, <\/strong>and <strong>&#8216;divine consciousness<\/strong>&#8216; which was the philosophy of the Mother.<\/li>\n<li><strong>UNESCO had endorsed the project <\/strong>of Auroville through four resolutions in 1966, 1968, 1970, and 1983.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The township is under the <strong>administrative control of the Ministry of Education <\/strong>since 1980 and is <strong>administered as per<\/strong> the provisions of the <strong>Auroville Foundation Act, 1988, <\/strong>passed by the Parliament of India.<\/li>\n<li>According to the provisions of the Auroville Foundation Act, the <strong>Government of India provides partial funding<\/strong> in the form of grants to the Foundation for meeting its expenditure on the establishment, maintenance, and development of Auroville.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Auroville FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Is living in Auroville free?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Both Newcomers and Aurovilians contribute a fixed monthly amount towards Auroville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Who is the owner of Auroville?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The land and assets of Auroville are held by a Government-appointed body called the Auroville Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Who controls Auroville?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Township is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/puducherry\/auroville-celebrates-57th-birth-anniversary-with-bonfire-meditation\/article69275456.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auroville is an experimental international township in South India (in Tamil Nadu, near Pondicherry)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}