The Xavier School of Rural Management hosted its annual Rural Living and Learning Experience (RLLE) Mela at its campus on Friday in which students of MBA-RM presented their willingness, capacity and drive to learn from the lives of people with whom they would work.The first year students from batch of 2018-20 stayed in villages for 45 days to understand the society, economy, and polity in all its convolutions, and learned to comprehend the extremities faced by the communities. They carried out active projects and worked on the requisite documentation.
After the return, students made formal presentations on village report, case study, development project reports as part of their RLLE deliverables. College deputy registrar S Antony Raj inaugurated the one-day mela in which faculty members, the XUB community and people from outside visited.As many as 25 stalls of 25 teams were put up in which students displayed a plethora of varied aspects of the rural life. Abhishek Tripathy, Shuvam Mohanty, Pragyan Mohanty and Sonam Nayak from team Odisha emerged as the winners.Bihar and Maharashtra teams were the runners-up.