On learning of the eviction notice to Annapurna Farm, the chairman of a Parliamentary Committee recommends that the eviction notice to Annapurna be withdrawn and that alternative sites be found. He also notes the importance of Annapurna to Auroville’s sustainability and that its organic methods of farming are based on the Mother’s vision.
Recently the Honourable Mukul Wasnik, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Youth & Sports, learned of the Auroville Foundation Office letter directing residents of Annapurna Farm to vacate within ten days. In his response to the Foundation office the chairman points out that the Committee had given specific recommendations in its full report of December 8, 2025. [The Committee’s report was also described in more detail in “Auroville on the Brink,” the first section of the Auroville Global Fellowship’s second annual report, One Year Later: Auroville in Crisis & the Way Forward.]
The Chairman notes the “larger importance of Annapurna Farm to Auroville’s founding vision and its long-term sustainability,” and “the loss of farmland would affect Auroville’s ability to sustain itself, and that Annapurna’s organic farming practices are consistent with the vision of the Mother.”
He goes on to give specific recommendations, including 1) withdraw the eviction, 2) ensure that no such transfer takes place until the Committee’s recommendation has been considered, 3) the Auroville Foundation explain the authority behind the eviction notices, 4) ensure that the new sustainability campus identify alternative sites, and 5) ensure that any future decisions on land transfers “are undertaken in full transparency and consultation with all stakeholders…”
Consultation with stakeholders is a critical element lacking in the Foundation Office notice to vacate Annapurna Farm. In December 2025 the Committee report noted that the Auroville Foundation Act “sets up three bodies for the governance and smooth functioning of Auroville – the Governing Board, the Residents’ Assembly, and the International Advisory Council” and emphasized that the Governing Board “should continue the practice of consultation and collaboration with the international Advisory Council and the Residents’ Assembly before making any key decisions.” Neither the Governing Board nor the International Advisory Council have been appointed since the term of the previous bodies expired in October 2025. The report also notes “Auroville is meant to have an autonomous character and that an empowered Residents’ Assembly is critical to the same since it is the only statutory body capable of representing the residents of Auroville.”
In a Sept 13 article in The Telegraph Online an Auroville resident notes a related issue: “private companies are being permitted to get established on Auroville land, which was never the case earlier… How can you re-purpose the land without asking the residents?”
Read the full letter by the Parliamentary Committee Chairman
Read the eviction letter from the Foundation Office to Annapurna Farm
