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a) To act as a coordinator among all the working groups and areas of Auroville with the help of the Representatives Group. b) To monitor and process all matters and issues of policies, with the help of the Representatives Group. c) To liaise with the Government and other authorities via its Working Committee, and to select individuals or teams of individuals to assist them in the various tasks generated by Auroville’s relationships, as and when the need arises. d) To help formulate the priorities, choices and orientations of Auroville in terms of development – whether physical, environmental, economical, educational or social. e) To initiate, facilitate, stimulate, encourage and inspire the contributions of individual Aurovilians or the formation, for short or long terms, of working groups with clear mandates, in order to fulfil any tasks seen as meaningful for Auroville. f) To commit to the cohesiveness of the whole community through its own primary commitment to the Charter of Auroville. It would ensue from the above that, where the work of the Development and Planning Groups is concerned, the Auroville Council would, as and when required, constitute ad-hoc boards of architects, builders, engineers and others to help assess and confirm the priorities for a given period of time, and ascertain that the conclusions reached are generally accepted and endorsed in the community. This specific exercise could actually be conducted right away by the present Executive Council, in collaboration with the Development and Planning Groups; their conclusions could then be processed with the help of the Representatives Group, and possibly a lot would be learnt in the process for future coordination and definition. To begin with, both the Development and the Planning Groups could prepare a description of: - Those guidelines and policies which they have found over the years to be sensible and meaningful. - Those guidelines that need to be reviewed. - Those guidelines that have been lacking and need to be defined.

.Observation.

The present Executive Council and Working Committee do fulfil some of the functions already. Until a more comprehensive and cohesive way of functioning and relating is identified, however unsatisfactory the present conditions may be it would be sheer irresponsibility for the existing groups to discontinue or to merge into some new body that would not be more but less comprehensive.

This is the end of the contribution!”

Note: It was always my understanding that the separation and division between the official, legal and formal work of representing Auroville, and the internal, multi- dimensional work of realising a cohesive and diverse unity of purpose and orientation, was extremely detrimental; it was like a snare that kept snapping at us and damaging the very integrity of the experience, and it seemed that whoever got