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In keeping with the mood of the times, the University of Kerala has decided to install rainwater harvesting mechanism on its campuses at Palayam and Kariavattom. According to the university officials, a project for the same has been prepared by the Groundwater department in collaboration with the Department of Geology. Once the project is commissioned, rainwater that runs off the roof-tops of the university buildings will be channelled through pipes to a spot near the post-office complex. This will serve as a groundwater recharge point. Similar mechanisms would also be set up at various locations inside the Kariavattom campus. According to sources in the university, there are also plans to submit a project for rainwater harvesting in the university to the University Grants Commission for possible funding. The university is thinking of refurbishing the pond situated behind the Department of Aquatic Biology. The plan is to rebuild the pond, which is now in disuse, and hand it over to the department for carrying out aqua-culture. The varsity is, however, yet to effectively implement a scheme for the beautification of the Kariavattom campus. The scheme, initiated three to four years ago, calls for scientific planting of trees inside the campus so as to reflect the rich bio-diversity of Kerala. Among other things, the scheme calls for a systematic construction of new buildings and no-construction zones, which will serve as the green lungs of the campus. Recently, the university was given a detailed digital map of the Kariavattom campus, prepared as part of this scheme.
The alumni of this university are spread all over the world. However, this more than six-decade-old seat of higher learning has not yet had an association of its alumni. This lacuna is now being filled with steps having been initiated for the formation of an alumni association. Several academic departments of the university are already having such fora that provide a common platform for their former students to come together. It is not merely for fostering their friendship or reliving the sweet memories of the days spent in their alma mater that they come together occasionally, but also for discussing and drawing up schemes in the greater interests of the department concerned and to benefit its present students. Besides the department development funds utilised for promoting the activities of the alumni associations, the old students generate their own funds for the benefit of the departments. The parent body, the university itself, has now decided to move in this direction. With many of its alumni doing extremely well in various walks of life both within the country and abroad, it will be in the interests of the university to provide a platform for them to come together yet again and look for ways to improve its functioning. The by-laws of the proposed association have already been framed and approved. In the last week of April, a meeting is to be held at the Senate Chamber here to constitute an ad-hoc committee to get things moving. The person who has enrolled as the very first member of the Alumni Association of the University of Kerala is K. R. Narayanan, former President.
By G. Mahadevan and J. Ajeth Kumar
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