10-05-2025
Officials from Ministry of Education visit Auroville, learn about development projects
A team from the Ministry of Education visited Auroville Foundation to understand it's functioning and learn about the development projects.
The team, including Joint Secretary Govind Jaiswal and Deputy Secretary Saila Shah, visited various units including food processing, candle, chocolate and leather manufacturing centres. They also visited Matrimandir and held discussions with representatives of Auroville Foundation, a release here said.
'The Ministry officials discussed about the development projects for the Auroville City, grant-in aids, land acquisition procedures for Auroville City project and Green Belt initiative. The officials expressed their support for the ongoing development initiatives,' the Foundation said in the release.
The visiting delegation was briefed by Accounts Officer Angshuman Basu, Senior Consultant Venugopal and other members of the committees of the Governing Board, the release said.
