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NT Bureau
Chennai, Dec 30:

        As part of it's 150th year celebrations, the University of Madras will adopt 150 slums and villages in and around Chennai.

        Speaking to reporters here yesterday, Madras University Vice-Chancellor S Ramachandran said the adoption programme will involve university's affiliated colleges and NSS students. The programme ranges to education, sociological, physiological, psychological and economical uplift of people.

        The project aims to make the University of Madras as a role model for serving the underprivileged people in slums and make the students to have a concern for the underprivileged living around them, Ramachandran said.

        On the sporting events, the Vice-Chancellor said the university is looking at improving the sports infrastructure in a big way. The university has proposed to conduct friendly matches with foreign teams, he added.

        He also announced that the cricket and table tennis (womens team) that emerged winners in the all India Inter-university tournament will be offered a week long pleasure trip to Singapore.

        During the year 2007, the university would be launching programmes to propagate Tamil language and culture in countries with Tamil speaking immigrants from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore and Sri Lanka, the Vice-Chancellor said.