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Auroville stands as a genuine model of group of people living together with their near and dear ones and flourishing together, Auroville is regarded as a ‘Universal Town’. Auroville, also known as the City of Dawn is an experimental township nestled just 8 km from Pondicherry towards its north-west side, lying in East Coast Road.
The place possess people with different nationalities, beliefs, cultures and traditions; and live together peace and harmony. The place has been in existence since 1968 and was started by Mirra Richard, also known as The Mother or the Maa, a spiritual collaborator and prominent disciple of Shri Aurobindo and still in the process of development and expansion.
French architect Roger Anger designed the city Auroville. The chief purpose of planning and setting up of this city is to realize human unity. It was inaugurated on 28 February 1968 and it incorporated soil from 124 countries and held it in its lotus-shaped urn and mixed to symbolize universal oneness. The project was endorsed by the Government of India and UNESCO.
The most important feature of this city is that it displays their customs and duties, faiths and beliefs, cultures and traditions with the permanent settlement of their pavilions. Auroville, a perfect universal town as the people living in the city speaks as many as 50 different languages.
The major tourist attraction here is Matrimandir, which lies in the center of the town, is a contemporary architectural sensation, with its height about 30 meters, possessing a lotus-shaped foundation pitcher in it. It has been acclaimed as “an outstanding and original architectural achievement”. Alfassa envisaged the temple and declared it as “a symbol of Universal Mother”.
Initially it was intended to be a home for as many as 50,000 people, but the actual population today is 2,007 is 1,553 as adults and 454 as minors. The people are from 44 nationalities and out of which 836 are of Indian origin. The community is divided up into neighborhoods with English, Sanskrit, French and Tamil with the names like Aspiration, Arati, La Ferme, and Isaiambalam.
The inhabitants are engaged in cultivation, management, business and handicrafts and technology, education, healthcare and development projects and AuroRE Systems, an international award winning unit concerned with solar photovoltaic and thermal systems.