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Update on the Oversight Committee & Intuitive Intelligence | By Aurovilian Paulette



By Paulette, 20 Nov 2019 / 04:34 am

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Oversight Committee versus Intuitive Intelligence: a smoke screen?

The issue of the Oversight Committee was first raised in the Auronet by Philippe, a member of the RA Organisation and Revival Task Forces: what is the Oversight Committee’s function? Since when on October 1st Madan Gopal, visiting member of the GB, handed over to members of the RA Revival task force an unsigned paper on the Oversight Committee/Intuitive Intelligence (this is the inspiration behind the Task forces to be set by the GB) questions keep multiplying. See my two previous postings: https://auroville.org.in/article/76148 and https://auroville.org.in/article/76382.

Recollecting the meeting he had with the leading character in the Oversight Committee, and launching him yesterday one last appeal, Vikram Ram has forwarded to the major working groups, the Foundation, the GB, plus a number of Aurovilians a strong email that provides new insights.

Supposedly instituted to look into alleged mismanagement of the GOI grants re construction and infrastructure, the already set up Oversight Committee was acknowledged by the GB in their September 2018 meeting – while the RA kept being uninformed. How comes that, in view of the character of such committee, out of the five Auroville residents appointed two have no knowledge of technical matters (one being a retired general, the other an electronic engineer), while a third one, having left recently the USA, is not much conversant with the rules/costs/availability etc. of the Indian market? As for the fourth one (who secretly met Vikram Ram) not once his name appears in the massive documentation I have received, on behalf of the Revival sub-task force, re alleged mismanagement of the GOI grants for infrastructure and construction. Only one member appears indeed to perform the task for which the Oversight Committee was officially constituted; an architect and FAMC member had been requested to assist him (instead of the other four in the Oversight Committee) but declined. This fifth member, confirming in his own capacity the report submitted by the Foundation’s accountant (serving for the past 25 years), together with an Auroville engineer certified for this task, requested the refund of specific sums; but instead the issue was closed.

The dysfunction of the Oversight Committee (Vikram Ram has repeatedly pointed out that, on top, three members should not sit there due to vested interests) raises further questions:

1. The Intuitive Intelligence document, claiming that the GB should institute Task Forces accountable to the Oversight Committee, is anonymous. We would have never suspected its existence had not GB Madan Gopal passed a copy to two members of the RA Revival Task Force for wide circulation. The WC itself was not able to receive a copy, in spite of repeated requests; I gave it myself to two members. Why such secrecy?

2. Vikram Ram has quoted the Oversight Committee’s member telling him: “We formed a secret committee to look into (meaning cover-up) your allegations and we only reply to your RTIs”. Is the Oversight Committee’s official task – to investigate alleged mismanagement of the GOI grants – in tune with forwarding to Vikram Ram all the RTIs files he has been requesting?

3. Are the other members of the Oversight Committee informed about the RTIs extra activity, or does this pertain to that one member only?

4. Are the other members of the Oversight Committee informed about the Intuitive Intelligence/first governance by the Supreme Consciounsess in Auroville that the unsigned paper claims? That the GB Task Forces should be accountable to the Oversight Committee on the wake of such literature?

Or... were Vikram Ram’s allegations conveniently used as a pretext to set up the Oversight Committee as a smoke screen to enforce the Intuitive Intelligence old delusion periodically resurfacing? And is this all, when the views of the two active members of the Oversight Committee are well known? I hope I am wrong, but is this strategy tailored to enforce what most residents resolutely reject – the so called “Line of Goodwill” with its multistoried tower for tourists, in spite, against the fact that the Mother told Roger about Matrimandir:

IN PRINCIPLE NOT FOR VISITORS”

?

There are witnesses about Roger proposing to solve the problem of the tourists flooding Matrimandir by erecting in the international zone an artificial hill or, alternatively, a low building from whose roof the tourists would view Matrimandir from a distance, and which would automatically close the matter.

May we bury the shady Oversight Committee not fulfilling its function – along with the Intuitive Intelligence delusion cum first governance in Auroville by the Supreme Consciousness, and restore the Mother’s and Roger’s will:

IN PRINCIPLE NOT FOR VISITORS.”

NOTE. As I was finalizing this script I received a collective email with the report submitted to the HRD minister that three GB members signed: Madan Gopal, Sachchidananda Mohanti and Nirima Oza. This is the conclusion: “In the light of the enormity and complexity of the complaint, the Enquiry Committee unanimously and strongly recommends that the complaint be investigated by appropriate Central Agency to be decided by HRD, Govt. of India as early as possible.”

Our duty, OUR DHARMA is to restore credibility in the Auroville project that the GOI generously supports, and of which the GB members are the guarantors vis-à-vis the Indian parliament. After all, isn’t this what Vikram Ram has been relentlessly asking for, the ultimate purpose of the massive documentation he has forwarded to the highest authorities of the country and which has called for the constitution of the Enquiry Committee leading to the above conclusions?

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