A community, like the famed Auroville in Tamil Nadu open to just about anyone, but much smaller, is being planned at Anmaspally village in the State by a handful of individuals concerned over the future of earth.
Referred to as the earth-centre commune, it can provide accommodation to about 100 people. The community is being developed around an earth-centre, a place for developing environmental leadership to realise the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, say those associated with the project.
“The community will be open to anyone who shares the ideals behind sustainable development goals. Around 18 entities have procured land for the community,” said N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy, an environmentalist who says he would move into the community in a year.
There would be no roads, Dr. Reddy says and life would be different from what most people are used to in the nine-acre area in the commune located in Khadthal mandal of Ranga Reddy district. A constitution has been drafted for life in the commune.
On Sunday, Supreme Court advocate and Ramon Magsaysay award winner M.C. Mehta laid the foundation stone for earth-centre. The centre would see mentors arrive from different parts of the world to train people from all works of life on sustainable-living.
“The centre is expected to come up in a year. The Council for Green Revolution has initiated setting up of the centre, but hopes to rope in like-minded institutions to complete it,” Dr. Reddy said.
Mr. Mehta also delivered Council for Green Revolution’s Foundation Day Lecture on Sunday, on the occasion of Earth Day, observed worldwide on April 22.
