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From: Avinash Ravi Raghavan <aviragh@auroville.org.in>

Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 at 14:14

Subject: Re: [avenir forwarding] Re: Work at radial - Request for access and update

To: Communication Avenir . <communication-avenir@auroville.org.in>

Cc: ATDC Auroville Town Development Council <avenir@auroville.org.in>, Candassamy N

<candassamy_avf@auroville.org.in>, <Vignesh.mani@gov.in>, Rajesh Shah

<shahrv@gmail.com>, Eric Vibrance <eric.courage@gmail.com>

Dear Jaya, Prasad, Candasammy Sir and Er Vignesh,

Thank you very much for meeting the different community members on Tuesday to set a way

forward. We thought it best to share our notes from this meeting so that we can all be clear and

on the same page. Please do go through and let us know if there are any differences in our

understanding.

Those present -

Jaya, Prasad, Govind (For TDC), Candasammy Sir (Senior Engineer - Auroville Foundation),

Vignesh (Engineer - CPWD), Ganesh (Contractor)

Avinash, Carla, Eric, Ladina, Rajesh (Vibrance), Lisbeth (Madhuca), Naradi (Arati), Isha

(Swayam), Arun (Revelation), Prashant, Rosa and Akira

Outcomes -

● A list of concerns by the communities will be shared and the Avenir communications

team will address these.

● TDC is ready to work with a small team of the residents and will answer community

questions through them. The residents have nominated Avinash, Eric and Rajesh to

represent them.

● The TDC communication team (Jaya and Prasad) acknowledged the lapses in informing

residents about the implementation and the difficulties this caused to the impacted

communities and committed to avoiding this going forward. The TDC communication

team will ensure proper communication to the involved communities about all present

and future work related matters.

● Safe and stable access will be provided prior to any works in affected areas. After the

meeting the engineers walked with Avinash and Rajesh down the path from Aarti to

Grace and identified 5 places where it had become treacherous to be fixed before any

other work.

● It was agreed that the infrastructure trench (with pipes) every 25m is not necessary for

the existing radial/communities and this will be revisited by the planning team.

● Prashant will send a list of technical questions to TDC so that the communities can be

informed and provide feedback.

● The part of the radial that has been removed will be relined with new paver blocks. This

will be about 15cm higher than the current and there will be a smoothly graded merger

where it connects with the existing radial.

● The work on the remainder of Vikas radial will happen only after the monsoon is over.

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If the above notes are correct, please do ensure all members involved with the work are aware

of them so as to avoid a situation like we had on Thursday.

We appreciate this opportunity to move forward together.

Sincerely,

Avinash, Eric and Rajesh (for the affected communities)