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From: Mohan Dutta <[FOI #32214 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2025 2:27 pm
To: Official Information <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Funding for Diwali event between
2017 and 2025

 

Kia Ora Auckland Council,

1. Kindly supply how much funding has been awarded to the Diwali event
between 2017 and 2025.
2. Kindly supply the details of how the Diwali event is designed, run and
managed.
3. Kindly supply the minutes of the meetings to discuss the Diwali event
between 2017 and 2025,
4. Is there a community advisory group that guides the council on the
event? Who sits on the community advisory group? What organizations are
represented on the community advisory group? How is the composition of the
advisory group decided?
5. Has the Council received complaints about caste discrimination and
racism around the Diwali event?
6. What are the restrictions related to food trucks for the Diwali event?
How are these restrictions decided? Has the Council received feedback
about the discriminatory nature of these restrictions? How does it respond
to such feedback or complaints? If there have been complaints raised, how
has the Council addressed them?
7. What is the Council's position on funding other religious events from
the South Asian communities?

Ngā mihi nui,

Mohan Dutta

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