SHUBHANGI SHIFA
Ranchi, May 26: The Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Ranchi, celebrated its 61st Annual Convocation Ceremony on Thursday at the Fr. Herman Rasschaert Memorial Auditorium.
A total of 296 students graduated across five programmes comprising 74 students in Human Resource Management, 72 students in Rural Management, 35 students in Information Technology, 58 students in Financial Management and 57 students in Marketing Management respectively.
Around 30 students from across the programmes were declared the top rank holders and at least 12 gold, 10 silver, and five bronze medals along with three cash prizes distributed on the occasion.
Along with this, 31 students were also awarded with Institutional Scholarships worth Rs 9.7 lakhs named Fr Michael Van den Bogaert SJ Memorial Scholarship for meritorious students of SC/ST category, Fr Michael Albert Windey SJ Memorial Scholarship for meritorious students on the whole open to all, and Fr Louis Francken SJ Memorial Scholarship for overall performance of all categories of students.
Chief Guest Ashish Kumar Srivastava, CEO & MD, PNB Metlife India Insurance Company Limited and also an alumnus of PGDPM (Batch 1989-91) of the Institute graced the occasion. Congratulating the graduating students he talked of his time in the institution. He furthermore, compared the time he was in XISS to the present and said that students had a lot of technological fortitude, that he was sure would have advanced students in their journey.
He added, “You must know the world has a lot of expectations from you, and I am confident that you will be very successful in life because it is this college that led you to where you stand today. XISS teaches us four Cs, Compassion, Commitment, Conscience and Competence. This is what gave me the confidence of going out in the world and achieving what I have achieved today.”
Fr. Ajit Kumar Xess SJ, Chairman, XISS-GB earlier declared the Convocation ceremony open and said, “I wish the graduating students on their special day and wish for them to excel and succeed in their lives ahead. Be professionals with a difference and follow the path of integrity, values and righteousness and carry forward the XISS legacy.”
Director, XISS, Dr Joseph Marianus Kujur SJ presented the Annual Report of 2021-22 highlighting the achievements, strategies, and practices of the Institute in the past year. He said, “It gives me immense pleasure in seeing this special Corona batch graduating today, as this batch has fought the adversities and risen up to the Institute’s motto, ‘Professionals with a difference’. The adversities have helped them become resilient and show courage in times of crisis and take charge of the situation when needed.”
He also mentioned that living up to the legacy of successful placements, 96.48 percent students this year have secured jobs in leading companies of the industry, such as Deloitte, EY GDS; Infosys, TCS, MG Motor, Tata Motors, VE Commercials (Volvo), PayU, MSwipe, HDFC Bank Ltd, Axis Bank Ltd, ICICI Lombard, ICICI Securities, Cashpor Microcredit, Reliance Retail Ltd, Bharti Airtel, BAIF Development Research Foundation, BRLPS, JSLPS, SOS, Reliance Industries, Vedanta Ltd., Adani Wilmar, MTR Foods Pvt Ltd, Alkem Laboratories Ltd., Manipal Tata Medical College, Xiaomi Technology Pvt Ltd. etc.
The Fr Michael Van den Bogaert SJ Memorial Award was given to Shan Prabhakaran, Manager, New Business Model-Farming at Mahindra. He is an alumnus of the PGDM Marketing (Batch 2011-13) of the Institute.
Further in the event, the guests released AXIS 2022 – annual of XISS along with other publications namely, combined volume of Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management Studies JJDMS 2021-22; book on Covid 19 and the Indian Economy; XISS-UNICEF Report-SAMPARK 2021-22 and SARANSH 2022, a compendium of XISS Monthly Bulletins.
Gold medalists of the occasion include Sneha Roy, Arvind Kujur, Srishti Sharma, Nishita Dey, Saumya Guria, Sonakshi Adya, Riti Shalini Tiru, Sidhharth Abhishek Guria, and Satyapriya Mitra.
The event was also graced by Dr Amar E. Tigga, Dean Academics; Fr Xavier Soreng SJ, Superior, XISS; along with Dr Ramakant Agrawal, Head PGDM (Human Resource Management); Dr Himadri Sinha, Head PGDM (Rural Management); Dr Mahua Banerjee Head, PGDM (IT); Dr Arup Mukherjee, Head, PGDM (Finance) and Dr Pinaki Ghosh, Head, PGDM (Marketing) and other faculty members, esteemed alumni, parents and medalists of batch of 2020-22.