Vice Chancellor timely measures fetch Madurai Kamaraj University top award

Madurai: The initiatives of P. P. Chellathurai, Vice Chancellor, Madurai Kamaraj University, in implementing Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) fetched the university recognition from the Union human resource development ministry on Thursday.

“Our university has been declared second in Swachhta ranking for higher education institutions in the country,” Chellathurai told DC.

Among the prominent measures he took after taking over as VC were making the campus garbage free, increasing the availability of toilet facilities for students and improving the green cover. “The central team which visited recently to assess sanitation facilities in our university, was impressed by our initiative of making one toilet available for two students,” the VC said.

Besides making the campus garbage free, Chellathurai also fixed a target of planting one lakh saplings on the university campus and six of its constituent colleges before the next academic year. “We have already planted 12,000 saplings”, he said.

On behalf of the VC, Special Officer (Research), Dr Kumarasan received the award from the ministry in New Delhi.