Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS) Ranchi organised its 60th Annual Convocation to honour its graduating students of batch 2019-21 at its campus on Friday.
Plant Head, Tata Motors Jamshedpur, Vishal Badshah was the Chief Guest of the ceremony where he distributed medals, scholarships and diplomas to several students while also virtually addressed the graduating students. The entire event was broadcasted live on XISS's YouTube account.
The ceremony began with the convocation parade led by the Badshah, Director, Assistant Director, and Head of Programmes (HoPs) post which the igniting of the ceremonial lamp marked the official beginning of the occasion. The Chief Guest, in his address, commended XISS on its numerous accomplishments throughout the years.
Badshah also released 'AXIS 2021', the Annual Report of XISS, as well as other publications of XISS. He further awarded the 11 gold medalists, 9 silver and 6 bronze medalists and 2 cash prizes from the Programmes of Human Resource Management, Financial Management, Marketing Management, Rural Management, and Information Technology Management.
Before the Chief Guest’s address Chairman, GB-XISS, Father Ajit Kumar Xess, formally announced the convocation ceremony open. In his welcome address, he extended the institute’s warm gratitude to the chief guest for gracing the occasion with his esteemed presence.
Father Xess then declared the newly constituted three Institutional Scholarships namely Father Michael Van den Bogart Memorial Scholarship for meritorious students of SC/ST category, Father Michael Albert Windey Memorial Scholarship for meritorious students on the whole open to all category and Father Louis Francken Memorial Scholarship for overall performance of all categories of students which were awarded to 30 students followed by the respective Head of Programmes (HoPs) declaring the names of 298 students who were awarded diplomas from the batch of 2019-21.
Director XISS, Dr Joseph Marianus Kujur presented the annual report for the academic year 2020-21 highlighting the Institute’s achievements during this period and said, “Today, as we honour another batch of managers and conscious citizens devoted to the service of the country and society, we take high pride in having created these Professionals with a Difference. We must work upon reinforcing the principle of Magis that is more and more with an even higher focus than before. The question of ‘what more can we do’ will enrich our efforts towards greater success and will curb stagnation, promote openness, as well as enable us to look beyond ourselves.”
The Father Michael Van den Bogaert Memorial Award every year is given to the illustrious alumni of the Institute and this Amit Banerjee, Founder Director SAMPARC and an alumnus of Rural Management Programme was the recipient.