St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association – West Zone presents *Xaverian Masterminds* a curated series of intellectual exchanges. Launching the first Webisode on *February 21, Sunday at 10.30 am*

*Decoding Budget 2021 and Economy* with Noted Fund Manager, Xaverian Pankaj Tibrewal and Professional Tax Consultant, Xaverian Rajiv Bajoria. Moderated by Xaverian Dr. Jalpesh Mehta, Senior Banker & Mentor, AIM, NITI Aayog, Govt. Of India
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St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata proudly celebrated 161^st Foundation Day.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata commemorated National Youth Day 2021 by paying Rich tribute to Swami Vivekananda on his 159^th Birthday.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Xavier’s Management Society presented An Insightful Session On Leadership Skills X-ORATE Igniting The Leader in you.

Department of Social Work: NSS & UBA

(Raghabpur Campus)

Online Activities for Students of Raghabpur Campus

In the month of November, the department organised some online quiz and opinion polls for first and second year students. For third year students and 2020 outgoing students, research assignments were posted on the website with deadlines of 28^th December and 30^th November 2020 respectively. The objective of conducting these online activities was to create some awareness on various contemporary issues among the students.

Below are the details of the online activities and the number of students who participated therein:

Sl. No.	Dates	Topic	No. of  credits hours allotted	Semester	No. of  students participated
1.	10th — 12th November	Quiz on NSS	2 hours	Semester — 1	4
2.	17th — 19th November	Quiz on UBA	2 hours	Semester –  1	73
3.	24th — 26th November	Quiz on NEP	2 hours	Semester – 1	20
4.	17th — 19th November	Opinion poll on COVID and its impact on girl’s education	2 hours	Semester – 3	30
5.	24th — 26th November	Opinion poll on Effects of Social Media on Youth	2 hours	Semester — 3	8
6.	Submission deadline — 28th December 2020	Research assignment on contemporary social issue	30 hours	Semester – 5	—
7.	Submission deadline — 30th November 2020	Research assignment on contemporary social issue	30 hours	Outgoing batch of 2020	4

 

Overall in the month of November 135 students of semester 1 And semster 3 have participated in  online activities organised  by the dept. Moreover, 4 outgoing tudents (batch of 2020) completed their social credit through research assignment, provided by the dept. online.

Beside the above, the department also verified 31 credit sheets (8 of Bengali honours, 11 of History Honours, 4 of B.A. General and 8 of Commerce dept.) and submitted to the Vice Principal.

Administrative activities

1. Virtual Departmental meeting:

This month, ten department meetings were held to discuss, plan and finilise forthcoming events, namely, online quizzes, opinion poll and christmas programme for the rural children of 6 villeges in December.

2. Coordination and networking with the village contact persons :

On 24th November, a meeting was held with our Vice Principal Rev. Fr. Johnson Padiyara, S.J. at Raghabpur campus to discuss about the forthcoming Christmas programme and to organise a prelim meeting with Sampoorna Nari Kalyan Sangathan NGO through whom various rural development initiatives will be implemented in college adopted villages.

Telephonic meetings were held with village contact persons to bring children for the Christmas programme.

 

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan

 

1. Virtual meeting with RCI and NCI

A virtual meeting was organised on 12^th November by IIT Kharagpur to discuss the progress made in the last couple of months and to share any challenges that might be faced by the PIs. All PIs shared that the progress of work was a little slow owing to the current ongoing pandemic. The staff informed both IIT kharagpur and IIT Delhi representatives about the problems they were facing with UBA online portal. The representatives of IIT Delhi assured quick resolve of the issue.

 

Report written by Ms. Shrawani Jha

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Sports, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata conducted a virtual seminar on Sports Management and it’s Oppurtunities conducted by guest speakers from the Xaverian Family: Anuj Kichlu, Harsh Gurnani and Arjun Ghose via zoom meeting and was live streamed on youtube. Over 600 students registered for the same.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, organized in collaboration with Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Baku,a 2 day International Workshop on High Performance Computing Application [AAHiPC] on 17 & 18 November, 2020.- 10 foreign students have been admitted to various UG and PG courses in several departments in the academic year 2020-21.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Science Association — release of Annual E-Magazine – PEBBLES.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Deparment of Bangla organized  a one-day Internationl Webinar (the sixth annual seminar of the department), jointly with the IQAC.

SPEECH FOR FATHER PRINCIPAL [WEBINAR- DEPARTMENT OF BANGLA] [NOVEMBER 13, 2020, 10 AM]
A very Good Morning to all of you!
I am happy to be a part of the sixth annual seminar organized by the Department of Bangla. During this pandemic situation we are unable to meet inside the college campus, but we are very much engaged in the continuous academic practice; this webinar is an example of that. This time, IQAC and Academic Council are collaborating with the departmental activity. I am glad to be a witness of this collective work. My regards to the IQAC Coordinator Dr. Partha Pratim Ghosh, Member Secretary, Academic Council, Dr. Ayan Chandra, Vice Principals, Deans. I congratulate the faculty members of the Department of Bangla, both Park St. and Raghabpur Campus, and last but not the least, our students for organizing this event.
Today, we are having the Second Maitreyee Sarkar Memorial lecture. Prof. Sarkar served the Department of Bangla for many years. We are honoured to have Dr. Pabitra Sarkar, eminent linguist, former Vice Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University, amongst us. I also welcome Dr. Aparna Roy as today’s resource-person, who is the Professor of the Department of Bangla, Visva-Bharati. We also have an interesting panel discussion in the second half. I sincerely hope that the whole program will be inspiring for us, especially for our dear students.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Education presented Education Day Celebrations.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Sports, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata conducted Team Challenge for the students of the various College Teams.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xavier’s Commerce Society organized Inductions exclusively for the first years students of the B.Com Department with a motive to provide a platform for the overall development and nurture the students for the corporate world. The recruitment process was conducted on the 7th and 8th of November over an online platform

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xavier’s Commerce Society organized Inductions exclusively for the first years students of the B.Com Department with a motive to provide a platform for the overall development and nurture the students for the corporate world. The recruitment process was conducted on the 7th and 8th of November over an online platform

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Finance Lab organized Webinar on Insight into the Corporate World.  Keynote Speaker — Saher Bin Jung.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Finance Lab organized Webinar on Mock Stock Simulation.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Finance Lab organized Webinar on Journey to become the Youngest Billionaire in India. Keynote Speaker — Nikhil Kamath.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Finance Lab organized Webinar on Session on Personal Finance.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Faculty  Development Program Department Of Commerce, Hosted Jointly by Internal Quality Assurance Cell And Academic Council, in collaboration with ULAB.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department Of Statistics And Students’ Council Celebrated World Statistics Day.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta), Alumni Association Organized – (Festival of Giving – Let’s share the joy of festivity with the unprivileged and unfortunate Amphan victims.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Mathematics organized Webinar Topic- Sandpile, Odometers, Membrane & Random Forest. Dr. Rajat Subhra Hazra Associate Professor, Theoretical Statistics & Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistics Institute, Kolkata. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awarde, Science & Technology, 2020. Former Student of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Political Science organized Webinar by Prof Partha Pratim Basu   Professor, Dept of International Relations Jadavpur University Kolkata  on the Topic “New Media, Democratic Governance and Politics: Some Emerging Issues“

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Sports organised an Online Sports Quiz for the students of the college where over 40 teams participated.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xavier’s Commerce Society organized Excel Workshop. Excel skills are highly valued because of the different ways it can be leveraged. It serves as a catalyst for growth in the business world. An online excel workshop was conducted by Mr. Praveen Patwari from Actuators. The workshop was conducted for the students of the college where 5 hours of non-academic credits were awarded to the attendees of the workshop to encourage them to attend and learn from it.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Political Science organized Webinar by  Prof Dr Manisha Madhava Associate professor and Head Dept of Political Science S.N.D.T  Women’s University Mumbai on the Topic ” New Public in the Second Republic: Emerging Contours of Political System in India“

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata , Department of Microbiology organized Webinar on Modern Trends In Microbiology(Chapter XVII)

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Economics organized an International Webinar on “The COVID 19 Pandemic Lives, Livelihood and Challenges”. Speakers: Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and Professor (Retd.) Raghabendra Chattopadhyay of IIM Calcutta.

This month, Students’ Orientation on NSS and UBA was held for all the first year students of both the campuses.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Political Science organized Webinar by Professor  David Schultz  form Hamline University Department of Political Science and Department of Legal Studies St. Paul, Minnesota on the Topic “American Presidential Elections“

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Xavier’s Commerce Society presented Inception – Quest For Dominance.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Enactus St. Xavier’s College presented Financial Planning for Millennials

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata The Post-Doctorate and Research Department of Physics Organized webinar named Neutrinos: From Impossible Dreams to Unreachable Stars by Dr. Srubabati Goswami, organized by the Post-Doctorate and Research Department of Physics, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata. The webinar was inaugurated by Father Principle Dr. Dominic Savio S.J. with a motivating and spirit-lifting speech. Father also introduced us to Late Dr. Govind Swarup and he was tribute with a video made by the students of the department.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Educational Multimedia research Centre Presented Its First Ever Online Workshop MOOCOLLOQUIUM On Challenges, Prospects and Development of MOOC

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Sports, organized a virtual seminar over zoom platform by eminent keynote speakers Mr. Vinit Mathew Baptist and Mr. Shatadru Dutt. The seminar was based on the importance of strength and conditioning for athletes in every field. Alongside a powerful presentation, Mr. Baptist held an interactive query session with the athletes, also conducting dynamic exercises with them.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xavier’s Commerce Society organized Inception

Inception was held exclusively for the first years from 24-26th of September, where the students were given a platform to showcase their mettle and explore their path to self-development. Students from the different departments of the college registered for the event as they were tested in various domains of the business environment namely, HR, Finance, PR, Marketing, etc. This year the theme for Inception 2020 revolved around cartels that control every aspect of the world, surviving through the realms of peril and thrill to emerge the true lord amongst the masses.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Social Work:  NSS & UBA, presented International Webinar Series to Commemorate 51 Years of NSS in college. The International Webinar series was organized on the themes “Youth Volunteering” and “Youth for Global Action”.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Hindi Literary Society presented events HINDI DIWAS

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Education organized the First Year Foundation Course.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Education Inauguration for First Years.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Sports, organized Sports Orientation for the first year students who got admission on the basis of Sports Quota, conducted via Zoom Meeting

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Education Teacher’s Day Online Celebrations.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Teacher’s Day Online Celebrations held.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Commerce (Evening) organized One day International Webinar on “Moratorium on Loan Repayment: Effects on Financial Institutions” in collaboration with ICAI on ZOOM platform where the eminent speakers were- Sri Chanchal Mazumder and Sri Tapash Chandra Paul.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Sports, Admission trials conducted online via Zoom Meeting for the students who have applied under sports quota, after verifying their certificates, to select the desired candidates for the final list.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Sports, Admissions meeting for the new batch who applied under sports quota.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Commerce organized webinars in association with The Institute of Chartered Accountant of India:  Impact of COVID -19 on Financial Markets & Residential Status and Incidence of Tax

An invited presentation titled “Moulding Men and Women for Service to the Nation” was made by Father Principal and Members of IQAC, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) at the NAAC- organized10^th Webinar on Best Practices adopted by A++ HEI’s. The said programme was coordinated by Dr. Ruchi Tripathi, Assistant Adviser & Dr. Neelesh Pandey, Assistant Adviser, NAAC.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Sports organised an Online Inter-Department Chess Competition, for the students of the Raghabpur Campus.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of NCC Celebrated Independence Day in the college Quadrangle.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Social Work:  NSS & UBA, Celebrating Independence Day, Department of Social Work:  NSS & UBA, In collaboration with World vision India presented Session II – “Let’s Celebrate Unity in Diversity”. The Departmment reached out to the children of Nurshikdarchowk and Shalpukur Villages.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, The Department of Physics in collaboration with
the Xaverian Astronomical Society (XAS), organized a Webinar-cum-Online Students’ Presentation on “A Slice of the Heavens – Rising above the Pandemic”.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, The Department of Statistics organized an International Webinar on “Understanding Covid-19 Progression with Data Science” was held at 4:15 pm. Prof. Arni S.R Srinivasa Rao from Medical College of Georgia, St. Augusta, United States and Prof. Sourish Das from Chennai Mathematical Institute, India were the invited speakers.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Hindi Literary Society presented event AAMNA SAAMNA

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xavier’s Commerce Society organized INNOVISION 2020- Unravelling all Odds
With a plethora of 24 informative webinars by eminent speakers, conducted over an online platform, EasyWebinar, this year’s Innovision witnessed an exciting participation from the audience in spite of such testing times. The seminars were conducted from 5th-29th August as we had over a thousand responses from students in schools and colleges across the country. The turnout for each webinar was 150 students on an average from all across the country, enthusiastic to find an opportunity to learn during a time when everyone else is trying to comprehend isolation. The audience was not limited to the students of St. Xavier’s College and hence, the endeavour was appreciated by a diverse group of students across various colleges as well as professionals.The Xavier’s Commerce Society hosted various eminent personalities for the first time as keynote speakers  for Innovision 2020. Innovision’s webinars have been conducted by esteemed speakers such as Mr. Aswini Bajaj, Mr. Sauvik Banerjjee, CTO of TATA digital., Rohan Chaubey, Mr. Sandeep Batra, CFO of Crompton Greaves. , Mr. Shantanu Naidu, Deputy General Manager in the office of Mr. Ratan Tata., Mr. Sumit Singhania, Director of PwC., Mr. Vivekanand Kilari, Co- founder of Ad Parody, Mr. Yogendra Bhagdev, General manager of Reliance Industries Limited since 22 years, among other erudite speakers.

Departments of Commerce and Management Studies organized a One-Day Webinar on “Stress Management Skills for Students under the Covid-19 Paradigm”

Keynote Speaker: Rev. Dr. Dominic Savio SJ, Principal, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata

Speakers: (1) Dr. Prathama Chaudhuri, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Calcutta Medical College and Consultant Psychiatrist; (2) Prof. (Dr.) Nilanjana Bagchi,Associate Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, Bethune College, Kolkata; (3) Ms. Subhika Singh, Consultant Psychologist, Counsellor and Corporate Trainer

Webinar Advisors: (1) Rev. Fr. Joseph Kulandai SJ

Vice-Principal, Department of Commerce (Morning),St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata; (2) Rev. Fr. Peter Arockiam SJ, Vice-Principal, Departments of Commerce (Evening) & Management Studies St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of History, Raghabpur Campus, organized Webinar on ‘Revisiting the Epidemics and Pandemics in India- A Comparative Study Emphasizing the Outrages of Covid- 19.

 

Two-Day Webinar on NAAC Assessment and Accreditation Process organized by IQAC in collaboration with NAAC, under the UGC Scheme “PARAMARSH”

 

Two-Day Webinar on NAAC Assessment and Accreditation Process organized by IQAC in collaboration with NAAC, under the UGC Scheme “PARAMARSH”

 

Department Of Education organized an International Webinar “Uncertainty And Fear Of The New Normal: Mental Health And Counseling In The Indian Context”

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Education organized Inauguration of Eduvision.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Education Celebrated Father Principal’s Birthday.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, The Post Graduate and Research Departmentof Commerce Organized an International Webinar in collaboration with Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC).

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and Academic Council hosted a National Webinar: “Pandemics and Natural Disacters: Understanding and Coping”.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Post Graduate department Of Computer Science Organized an Invited Web Talk by Mr. Padmanava Ghosh Dastidar, Associate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation, east Asia on “Data Migration – Heads and Tails” as part of the Web series – Trends and Techniques in Computer Science.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Social Work:  NSS & UBA, mobilized some essential items (Such as hand sanitizers, soaps, masks and biscuits)for the village children, Visit to Kakdwip, Tele- Conference with UBA NCI and RCI.

 

St. XAVIER’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), KOLKATA, Department of Microbiology,in collaboration with Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), presents ‘Frontiers In Biological Sciences (Chapter IV)’, an International Webinar on ‘Covid 19 – the current scenario’ on

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Social Work:  NSS & UBA, in collaboration with XADAM  (Xaverian Academy of dance & Music) observed International Day of Yoga.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Sports Department in Association with the SXC Students Council conducted XPL Online Quiz. The Prelims were conducted on 16th June and the Finals were conducted on 18th June from 5pm onwards and were live streamed on Facebook.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department Sports, organised an online chess tournament, SXC LOCKDOWN ONLINE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP, for the students of the Main Campus, where Saptorshi Gupta B.SC. III won the tournament, followed by Shinjini Sengupta B.Com (E) I and Sayantan Chandra B.SC. III.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Social Work:  NSS & UBA organized strengthening the NSS Core Team – Online Leadership Training and Skill Development, Relief operation For Cyclone Amphan : Gift A Roof initiative, Unnat Bharat Adhiyan, Symphony Of mind And Body: Observing International Day Of Yoga.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department Sports, In the midst of a pandemic, The Department of Sports organised a virtual seminar via Zoom Meeting on the topic,“Restarting Team Training With Social Distancing” to spread awareness, inform the Xaverians about the rules of the new world and to ensure that the students stay safe.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Social Work & NSS Organized a session on “How to prepare a programme schedule”. The relief operations were carried out to the villages adopted by our College and under Unnat Bharat Abhiyan.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of  Sports, in the midst of a pandemic, where Xaverian Sportspersons are not able to move out of their homes for their individual/group practices, took a new initiative starting off with its online fitness classes to ensure that they keep up with their daily fitness.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Social Work & NSS Organized Relief Operation for Cyclone Amphan: “Gift a roof initiative”. The relief operations were carried out to the villages adopted by our College and under Unnat Bharat Abhiyan.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Social Work & NSS Organized Awareness Campaign on Covid- 19. The relief operations were carried out to the villages adopted by our College and under Unnat Bharat Abhiyan.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Social Work & NSS Organized (i) Awareness Campaign on Covid- 19.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Social Work & NSS organized Covid- 19 Relief operation work through the rural campus at Raghabpur.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata presented Visions, 2020

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata The Department of Social Work & NSS Celebrated International Women’s day in Collaboration with Agricultural department, Govt. of West Bengal (Office of the Asst. Director of Agriculture Bishnupur Block I, South 24 Parganas) on the Theme: ‘Together Transforming Lives’.
Chief Guest: Dr. Pritam Nandi, Asst. Director of Agriculture  Bishnupur Block I, South 24 Parganas
Venue : St. Xavier’s College, Raghabpur Campus
Participants : 150 Villages Women, 80 College Students

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xaverian Astronomical Society in Collaboration with Department of Social Work & NSS presented an Interactive Session with High School Students -“Beyond The Stars”.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department Of Statistics, organized the  annual department event Epsilon Delta 2020 – “Estimate Reality“.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Finance Lab organized Webinar on Data Analysis and Bootcamp.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Fine Arts Society presented Carnival Of Rust ’20.

 

Rev. Fr. Jeyaraj Veluswamy S.J., rector of St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata spoke on Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAP) of the Society of Jesus as given by Pope Francis.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Mass Communication And Videography presented resonance- Seminar.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department Of Management Studies presented a Workshop (Hand- on) on Anti Plagiarism Software iThenticate. Venue: E-Resource Center of Central Library. Resource Person: Dr. Madhu Agnihotri.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Environmental Studies(Raghabpur) presented Seminar and Workshop on Potential use of Solid  Waste in Agriculture. By Dr. Arup Kumar Mitra, Associate Prof, department of Microbiology.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Management Studies presented Two Days Workshop On ‘Financial Markets’. Speakers : Mr. Biswanath Chakraborty, Mr. Rakesh Somani.

 

Xaverian Research Colloquium “Anusandhan” organized 13th Lecture. Topic –  Her Face : Close-up as a Philosophical Category in Fiction Films. Speaker – Prof. Shenjuti Dutta, Assistant Professor.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Physics presented Physics Colloquium, Title: The Birth of Topological Insulators Speaker: Dr. Oindrila Deb Affiliation: Physics Department, University of Basel, Switzerland.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Mathematics presented Father Goreux Memorial Lecture, Invited Speaker : Shubhabrata Das – Assistant Professor, Presidency University. Title : Groups and Symmetries

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xavier’s Commerce Society under Department of Commerce presented Insignia Main Events, 2020. Reigns Of The Empire

 

Cadets and ANO of SXCNCC attended the Awards Giving Ceremony at Rajbhawan.Fr. Principal with Honorable Governor of West Bengal along with cadets and ANO of SXCNCC were present during the awards giving ceremony at Rajbhawan.

 

St. Xavier’s College Hostel, Kolkata presented COFRADIA, 2020

 

Inter College State Sports & Games Championship, 2019-20 from 23rd February 2020 to 29th February 2020,
was organized by St. Xavier’s College in association with the Education Directorate, Department of Higher Education government of West Bengal. Dr. Partha Chatterjee was the Chief Guest for the Programme, Prof. Jayasri Ray Chaudhuri Director of Public Instruction and Gaming Chairperson inaugurated the programme.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Bangla (Raghabpur) presented Bangla Vibhag Ayojit Bishesh Karmashala “Gourio Nritya”.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Physics presented The Andromeda Galaxy: A Testbed for studies of Dark matter and galaxy interactions. Speaker : Dr. Puragra Guhathakurta, Professor, department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

 

A cultural programme on the said occasion, titled, ‘Doshobhuja Bangali’ was organized where ten eminent personalities from India and Bangladesh were felicitated by Fr. Principal.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Finance Lab organized Webinar on Investment in Equity and Derivatives.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata The Department Of Commerce (Morning) organized a Book Release ceremony, in Fr. D’ Souza Hall (Room 15). Title of the book: Anandadharar Deshe (2nd Volume), Author: Prof. Swapan Banerjee, Dean, Commerce(Morning) department.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Computer Science presented Fourth Edition of the Annual Magazine, “X-Cryptus Vol. IV”. The Inaugural ceremony of the Annual Technological festival of the Department of Computer Science, “Exabyte, 2020”,  will witness the Launch of X-Cryptus Vol. IV. The Theme of this Year’s magazine is: “Exploring The Impossibilities”.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xavier’s Management Society,  presented Xavier’s Management Convention’ 2020 – Olympus: Clash For Divinity.

 

St Xavier’s College with its commitment towards the MOU with Santa Clara University, USA, organized the course on Science and Religion for the Students/Faculty for the Seventh consecutive year. Prof. Alexender Zecevic, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, presented lectures at SXC from 17-19 February, 2020.

 

Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata & St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Kolkata jointly organised the Inaugural Lecture of the Lecture Series on Asian Connections on 17th February 2020 held at St Xavier’s College, Kolkata. The lecture was presented by Professor Tansen Sen of New York University, Shanghai, on ‘Many Facets of Belt and Road: Historical Realities and Contemporary Politics’.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Social Work & NSS presented Shishu Mela, 2020 – To provide an opportunity to the Children to discover and showcase their talent. Over 1100 children participated in the joyful event, Fr. Principal, Fr. Rector and Bishop Linus Gomes graced the occasion.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata The Department Of Political Science cordially invites all faculty members to a panel discussion on: Access to justice: Ideals and Reality. Prof. Dr. Dipankar Sinha, Department  of Political Science, Calcutta University. Prof. Nandita Dhawan, School of Women Studies, jadavpur University. Advocate Mr. Atasi Ghosh, Calcutta High Court. Ms. Monami Das, Social Activist and Senior Project Manager, Nishtta Moderator- Prof. Dr. Indranil Bose, Department of Political Science, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Post Graduate Department of Commerce (M.Com) presented A Special Lecture Session. The lecture delivered by Ms. Mohua Roy (Mental Health Counselor and Therapist, Founder —  Theta Skills Education & Management Services).

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of History (Raghabpur) presented A Lecture on ” Understanding Sufism in South Asia”. Speaker- Prof. Amit Dey, Department of History, University of Calcutta

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Political Science presented Suffragium, 2020 Theme: Access to Justice – Ideals And reality. Chief Guest ;  The Hon’ble Justice Soumen Sen.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xavier’s Finance Community presented Understanding Capital Markets And Learn To Identify Trends. A Session By Shuchi Rungta (Kredent Academy)

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Finance Lab organized Webinar on Understand Capital Market.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Political Science presented Fr. Albert Huart Memorial Lecture. Speaker : Professor Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, department of History, State University of New York, Oswego & Executive Director, Women Founders Collective. Topic : “Camels, cars and Curiosities: Photographs as Documents for Women’s History”

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xaverian Centre For Equality And Liberty presented CRISTIA– Shape The Calm Of The Dawn.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Commerce (XCS) presented Insignia Auditions, 2020.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Science Association presented Sigma, 2020– A Transit Through Time.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Fine Arts Society presented Workshop Week And Out Of The Box 10th Feb, 2020- Cartoon & Comic Painting, 11th Feb, 2020- Street Jazz, 12th Feb, 2020- Digital Media, 13th Feb, 2020- Photojournalism, 14th feb, 2020- Performance Poetry

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of History (Raghabpur) presented ‘One Day International Seminar‘ on Writing identity: The Symbolic Value of the ‘Bengali’ Script.- Speaker- Prof. Carmen Brandt, department of South Asia Studies, University of Bonn, Germany

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Political Science organized a Special Lecture, by Prof. Dipankar Sinha, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta on the theme Postmodern Public Administration: What It is and is Not.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Film Studies in collaboration with the Xaverian  Flim Academy presented Students’ Seminar and  Paper Presentation.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata The Department of Education organised a National Seminar for School Principals and Administrators on Artificial Intelligence: Unleashing the Leadership Potential. The Seminar focused on Learning, Unlearning and Relearning.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Sports (Raghabpur) presented Annual Sports 2020.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Physics presented Dr. Ranjan Ray Commemoration

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata  Finance Lab organized Webinar on 5 Trillion — GDP by 2024 — Possible?

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of History(Raghabpur) presented INCOME TAX RETURN FILING (ITR — 1)

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Post Graduate department of Commerce(M.Com) presented “Discussion on Budget Analysis”

Hult Prize St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Event Objective– Providing the budding entrepreneurs of the youth with a substantial platform to convert their research and B-plans into an organization enhanced by the lights of the UNITED NATIONS. Guest Judge- Mr. Surojit Roy, Mr. Sujay Santra & Ms. Rajul Jain.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xavier’s Management Society organized Xavier’s Management Convention –Registrations

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata  Entrepreneurship Development Cell(EDC) presented Entreprise, 2020, Prelims. 2020. (Final Selection Round)

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of political Science organized a Special Lecture, by Prof. Subrata Mukherjee, Former Professor, Department of Political Science South Campus University of Delhi on the theme The Political Ideas of Rabindranath Tagore.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of History (Raghabpur) presented A Lecture on ” Mapping the Multifaceted World of Environment History” Speaker- Dr. Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Department of History, University of Kalyani.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Sports organized Annual Sports 2020.

Fr. Josep F. Maria Serrano a Jesuit priest from Barcelona, Spain visited St Xavier’s College during 31st January — 4th February, 2020 to do a research on Values and Jesuit Higher Education. The visit consisted of individual as well as collective dialogues with Jesuits, Professors, Support-Staff and Students around the implementation of values in the Institution.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of History (Raghabpur) presented A Lecture on “Some Aspects of the Political Thought of Rabindranath Tagore”– Speaker- Sayantan Ghosh Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Hiralal Mazumdar Memorial College For Women, Dakhineswar.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Department of Education And Environment Studies presented The Kolkata Youth Summit on Climate Change- Kolkata City – “Our responsibility”

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Xaverian Research Colloquium (XRC) – An Endeavour of Anusandhan – invited Lecture “Artificial Intelligence- Boom or Bane?” – Speaker: Prof. Tapalina Bhattasali St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata.

“XAVOTSAV” the annual cultural extravaganza organized by St. Xavier’s College Students’ Council. It had events spread across various spectrums such as performing arts, fine arts, literature, lifestyle and sports. Year after year our resolve to make Xavotsav bigger and better only strengthens. Fifty-five colleges participated this year and spanned over three days – 22nd to 24th January, 2020

Department of Bangla organised its first One-Day International Seminar on 21st January, 2020. Prof. Ghulam Murshid and Prof. Rebecca Manring were the invited speakers for the day.

The seminar started at 1 p.m. with an inaugural speech by the Dean of Arts Prof. Arghya Bandyopadhyay. Prof. Murshid, Former Professor, Rajshahi University and eminent scholar of SOAS was the speaker for the first session. He delivered a speech on Songs of Rabindranath Tagore, its uniqueness and contribution in the Bengali culture. Prof. Manring, Professor of Religious Studies and India Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington delivered her speech in the second session from 2.30 p.m. Her lecture was on Dharmangal by Rupram Chakrabarty, a medieval text which Prof. Manring is translating now.

The seminar ended with a vote of thanks by the Head of the Department.

An invited talk on “Commodity Exchange of India ” was organised by the Department  of  Commerce, St. Xavier’s College from 11 am to 12.30 pm.  Mr. Manish Kumar Singh CA  and Mr Sanjiv Gain, Manager MCX were the resource persons. The session  was  attended  by  the faculties of  Mathematics, Commerce and Economics departments . There were hands on session on the technicalities related to Finance Lab.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Finance Lab organized Webinar on Commodity Markets and Derivatives.

Association of Voluntary Blood Donors, West Bengal,  20A Fordyce Lane, Kolkata 700014 admitted
St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, 30, Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata – 700016
to the ROLL OF HONOUR of the distinguished blood donor organizations of the State in recognition of the service to mankind rendered through the benevolent Social work of organizing Fifty Blood Donation Camp and recruiting 15359 donors between November 25, 1981 and August 11, 2009.

Association of Voluntary Blood Donors, West Bengal,  20A Fordyce Lane, Kolkata 700014: Sabita Gupta Memorial Award for the competition year 2018-2019 was awarded to
St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, 30, Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata — 700016 for outstanding performance in the field of voluntary blood donation by mobilising voluntary blood donors in the year amongst the Educational Institutions.

Certificate Of Achievement : Awarded to St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, for successfully implementing on campus RIO+25 UN Water Action Decade International Short Term Course Program 2019-2020.
Location of Institute Issued, Mumbai 2019-2020.
Mr. Pushkar ganesh Vaidya, Program Head.
Mr. Rathin Dholakia, Development Head.

On 17^th January, 2020 Dr. Rituparno Goswami, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Westville Campus), Durban 4000 gave talk named “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” on how gravitational field can transfer energy and momentum between distant places.

Faculties from the department of Physics and UG, PG and Ph.D. students of the department attended the talk and were benefitted. Photo clips of the event are attached herewith.

On 17.01.2020 an invited talk on “Applications of Finance Lab using Excel and Python” was organised by the Department of Commerce, St. Xavier’s College from 2 pm to 4 pm. The resource person comprises of Miss Eeshani Agarwal, B.E, MS, Corporate Trainer. The session was attended by the students of Commerce and Economics departments. There were hands on session on the technicalities related to Finance Lab.

All the sessions were enriching and thought provoking to open up research paradigms in finance and quantitative techniques.

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started”. Entre-prise 2020 organized by Entrepreneurship Development Cell of St. Xavier’s College is the first intra-college Entrepreneural stimulation of the year. The prelims on the 15th and 17th January saw a participation of around 80 teams (of two participants each) stepping out of their comfort zone and putting their skillset to work.

The first day of prelims was based on a strategic game based on gang wars in Bombay and solving a case study within 7 minutes. The participants had to showcase their negotiation skills backed by logical decision making and ensure they fulfilled their purpose of sitting at the game panel. Be it playing the role of a corrupt police head or a power- thirsty politician, the participants did it all and with great drive and purpose. We also tested thier quick analysis and crisis rectification through a written case study. By the end of the day, 20 teams had progressed to the next leg of prelims on 17th January.

On day 2, the top 20 were divided in 2 groups of 10 teams each. The 10 teams were further divided in 2 parts, interviewer and interviewee. Jet Airways had rendered numerous skilled personel unemployed when it went out of business. Participants had to adjust the industry average stratification sheets for various job profiles based on which they sat for interviews and locked the best deal possible keeping their secret agenda in mind. We tested pressure handling, confidence, diplomacy and most importantly, making wise choices.

We ended up with our top 10 teams by the end of the day and saw these prelims as a golden opportunity to get the real flavour of the 21st century corporate world.  The finals shall take place on 4th and 5th of February, 2020.

Dr. Srijani Bhattacharjee, Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata gave a talk on ‘Beginning of British Forestry Practices in India’ at the Raghabpur Campus of St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata. This lecture was arranged for the students of the Department of History, Raghabpur Campus. In her presentation, Dr. Bhattacharjee highlighted the various aspects of the British forest policies in colonial India and the response of the natives. The students were attentive and the speaker was delighted to share her views with them. The lecture was informative, analytical and energetic. The speaker also shared her PPT for the students so that they can refer from the slides whiles preparing their answers for the end-semester examination.

The department has organized a Faculty Orientation Program with an objective of preparing our department for the elective paper — Computerized Accounting System opted by 225 students of BCOM (Morning and Evening). Till date two sessions have been conducted for covering few significant application areas of computerized accounting such as Invoice preparation considering GST, Pay-slip generation, TDS treatment, Tax Analysis along with other significant discussions related to the context.

The software used was Tally ERP 9. The sessions were conducted by our own faculty members having expertise in the area and updating the whole team with latest changes in the field. Majority of the members of the Department attended the session and upgraded their knowledge. The sessions conducted were hands-on as well as highly interactive sessions.

Two-day ‘National Conference on Women’s Issues and Everyday Life: Power, Resistance and Representation’ was organised by St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata on 10th and 11th January, 2020. The interdisciplinary conference attempted to provide a platform for discussing the  on-going research activities on the trials and tribulations faced by the woman subject in a patriarchal social order. . The inauguration Ceremony was graced by the presence of Prof. Suranjan Das, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of Jadavpur University as the Chief Guest. Two panel discussions and numerous track sessions were held over the course of the two days in which eminent scholars and renowned academicians deliberated on several pertinent issues concerning women’s health, social status, role in the work space, representation in politics, media and cinema, presence in decision-making apparatus for higher education, plight of dalit women, to name some. On 10^th January 2020 a panel discussion was held on Women’s Issues and Everyday Life: Power, Resistance and Representation. The panelists were Prof. Sanjukta Dasgupta, (Retired) Department of English, Calcutta University, Prof Manabi Majumder, Department of Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences, Kolkata and Ms. Anchita Ghatak, Social Activist. The panel discussion was moderated by Dr. Argha Banerjee, Dean of Arts, St. Xavier’s College. The second day too witnessed an interesting panel discussion titled ‘Charting a New Territory: Women as Change-makers in Higher Education’. The panel was composed of distinguished personalities, Prof. Lipi Ghosh, Director of Women’s Studies Research Centre at University of Calcutta, Prof. Ishita Mukhopadhyay, professor of economics at University of Calcutta, Prof. Krishna Sen (Retired), Department of English, University of Calcutta and Dr. Nandita Dhawan, Director of School of Women’s Studies at Jadavpur University. The session was moderated by Dr. Sugata Marjit, Distinguished professor, IIFT, Kolkata.

 

The panels on both the days were followed by multiple simultaneous track sessions in which young students and researchers from various institutions around the country, Jadavpur University, Presidency College, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai, Guwahati), to name a few, presented papers on very pertinent issues concerning women’s health, social status, role in the work space, representation in politics, media and cinema, presence in decision-making apparatus for higher education, plight of dalit women, to name some.

 

The two-day conference came to a close with a closing ceremony at the end of the second day. Prof. Madhuja Mukherjee of the Department of Film studies at Jadavpur University was invited to deliver the valedictory address, for which she chose to highlight the link between ‘Gender and Cinema’. She spoke on the role of women in cinema, issues of representation, labour rights in the field, etc. The academic fraternity looks forward to such crucial initiatives in the domain of women’s studies.

On 10^th and 11^th January, 2020 a DBT sponsored two-day faculty development programme (FDP) workshop on Experimental Physics at the Graduate Level: Scopes and Challenges was organized by the Department of Physics. About 12 resource persons from different esteemed institutions gave talk and demonstrated different low cost experiments that can be implemented in UG lab. About 42 participants from different colleges turned up in this departmental activity and were benefitted. Some of the photo clips of the event are attached herewith.

The Department of Chemistry, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata organised the Recent Advances in Chemical & Biological Sciences: International Chapter, 2020 on 8th January, 2020 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at R. K. Hall inside the college campus. The one day international seminar hosted eminent speaker Dr. Herman Sintim from Purdue University, USA along with speakers from various institutions across the nation like Dr. Pradip Maity from CSIR-NCL, Pune Dr. Prasanta Kumar Das from IACS, Kolkata and our very own Dr. Sanjib Ganguly from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata followed by an interactive session where the house participated in the discussion of the day.

Prof. Pradip Kumar Majumdar, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Rabindra Bharati University gave a lecture on ‘The History of Mathematics in Ancient India’ at the Raghabpur Campus for the students of the History Hons. The lecture was informative as well as analytical and delivered in a lucid manner. The students enjoyed and asked questions. The speaker praised the students for their patience and was happy with their response. The lecture started at 3.10 pm in the afternoon and continued till 5 in the evening. It was a learning experience for both the students and the faculties.

 

The Departments of Commerce (UG & PG) and Management Studies of St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata in collaboration with the Department of Commerce, University of Calcutta and Lincoln University College, Malaysia organised a two day International Conference on “Innovative Business Practices in a VUCA World” on January 3rd & 4th, 2020 (Friday and Saturday) at the college premises. Registration was open for research scholars, academicians and students. The faculty members of the aforementioned departments extended their support to make this conference a success. A number of students from the Post-graduate Department of Commerce volunteered to extend their help to different committees formed for this conference. The inauguration took place on the 3rd of January, 2020 at 10.30 a.m.

3^rd January, 2020 (Day 1)

Dignitaries Present during inauguration:

In house:

1. Rev. Dr. Dominic Savio, S.J., Principal, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata
2. Rev. Dr. S. Xavier, S.J., Vice-Principal, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata
3. Rev. Peter Arockiam, S.J., Vice-Principal, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata
4. Dr. Sanjib Kumar Basu, Dean, Post-graduate Department of Commerce, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata [Organising Secretary]

 

Honourable Guests:

1. Prof. Jahirul Haque, Vice Chancellor, University of Liberal Arts, Dhaka
2. Prof. Amiya Bhaumik, President, Lincoln University College, Malaysia
3. Prof. Dhruba Ranjan Dandapat, University of Calcutta
4. Prof. Ashish Kumar Sana, Head, Department of Commerce, University of Calcutta [Joint Organising Secretary]

 

At the inauguration session, the edited volume of the book containing the selected research papers of the participants was also released.

After the inauguration programme, a Plenary Session was held on the main theme of the conference. The following dignitaries were present:

1. Dr. ATM Tariqul Islam, Country Representative, BRAC, Myanmar
2. Ms. Nilanjana Dasgupta, Director- Child Rights and Trafficking, Govt. of West Bengal
3. Prof. Ramendra Singh, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata
4. Prof. Tanupa Chakraborty, University of Calcutta
5. Mr. Snehashis Sur (Co-ordinator of the session)

 

Four concurrent sessions were held for paper presentation under the themes of Finance, Marketing, Community Development and HRM. The Chairpersons were Prof. Ashish Kumar Sana, Prof. Dipti Chakraborty, Dr. ATM Tariqul Islam, and Prof. Mohua Banerjee. A special interactive session was also organised for the researchers and students, chaired by Prof. Jahirul Haque and Prof. Amiya Bhaumik.

 

4^th January, 2020 (Day 2)

Four concurrent sessions were there for paper presentation under the themes of Finance, Marketing, Community Development and HRM. The Chairpersons were Prof. Siddhartha Sankar Saha, Prof. Soma Sur, Prof. Sharmistha Banerjee, and Prof. Kanika Chatterjee. This was followed by a Panel Discussion on Contemporary Issues in Business Research and Innovation. Following persons were the panellists:

1. Prof. Sandeep Poddar, Senior Research Director, Lincoln University College
2. Dr. Debaprasanna Nandy, Director (Research and Journal), ICMAI
3. Prof. Mary Conway Dato-on, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Florida, USA 4. Prof. Ananda Mohan Pal, University of Calcutta
4. Prof. Neeraj Kumar, Research Coordinator, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata

 

A special lecture session was arranged for Prof. (Dr.) Atiur Rahman, Ex-Governor Bangladesh Bank and he spoke on the topic ‘Ashes to Dignity: Experience from Bangladesh’. Dr. Arup Choudhury has coordinated the session.

The valedictory address was delivered by CMA Biswarup Basu, Vice-President, ICMAI. In this session, certificates and edited book of the conference were distributed among the participants. Dr. Sanjib Kumar Basu, Dean- PG Department of Commerce of the college offered the vote of thanks to all, who contributed for the grand success of the conference.

 

Thirty students from Computer Science department organized Christmas Carnival for the elderly residents of Tollygunj Homes.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Environmental Science presented International Symposium on “Environment and Climate Crisis”.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Commerce organized Faculty Development Programme on “Applications of Finance Lab in Research” at the “Finance Lab” Jubilee Building.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Statistics and Physics in Collaboration with IUCAA Centre for Astronomy Research and Development presented National Seminar on Application of Statistics in Natural Sciences.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Social Work and NSS observed World Aids Day in collaboration with West Bengal State AIDS Prevention & Control Society at Raghabpur Campus

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Social Work and NSS  in collaboration with Xavier’s Management Society (XMS) organized a Christmas Carnival at Ananda Ghar, an NGO which works for HIV/AIDS children.

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Commerce (Faculty of Law) organized Faculty Development Programme on Corporate Laws

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Social Work and NSS observed World Aids Day in collaboration with West Bengal State AIDS Prevention & Control Society at Park Street Campus.

 

Around 41 volunteers of Department of Social Work and NSS attended a seminar organised by West Bengal State AIDS Control and Prevention Society in Swasthya Bhavan

 

St. Xavier’s College (Kolkata), SXC Consultancy Cell presented Corporate Training Programme on  Finance for Manager: Corporate Training Programme

 

St. Xavier’s College (Kolkata), M.Com. Dept. presented Workshop (PHASE-II) on ‘Crafting and Conducting Research & How to publish’ (UGC- Care Listed Journal)

 

St. Xavier’s College (Kolkata), Department of Biotechnology presented National Seminar  on Frontier in Biotechnology and released the departmental magazine Chiasma

St. Xavier’s College (Kolkata), Social Work & NSS presented Annual Events on World Aids Day

St. Xavier’s College (Kolkata), The English Academy presented Literaria’2019

On 14th September, 2019, the Committee for Students’ Welfare and Against Sexual Harassment, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Raghabpur Campus in collaboration with BA General Department, Raghabpur Campus organized Cognitionis’19,a panel discussion on gender sensitization titled- ‘I or We’ – The Societal Approaches to Appraise the Issues related to Gender Sensitization-Theories and Experiences’. The distinguished Speakers who shared their views in this Panel were —Prof. Sujata Mukherjee, Professor, Department of History Rabindra Bharati University, Prof. Kaberi Chakrabarti, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta, Prof. Sahara Ahmed, Associate Professor, Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University, Prof. Maroona Murmu, Associate Professor, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Dr. Damayanti Datta, Consulting Editor, The Outlook Group, Ms Priyanka Bhoopal (Bhattacharyya), Clinical Psychologist, SXC, Main Campus, and Mental Health Foundation, Kolkata, and Ms Sanchita Ghosh, Advocate, Calcutta High Court and Alipur Court.

The Xavier’s Commerce Society recently organized Intellegenstia 2019 on the 13th and 14th of September. As was the norm this year, our event was merged with Father Xavier’s International Conference which saw varied groups of participants speaking on conventional topics to influence the nature. The event concluded with the closing ceremony on 14th at 4 p.m. along with the launch of Youthink Vol. XIV. With that, Youthink was distributed by the authorities and the event came to an end.

One Day National Workshop on Plagiarism and Academic Integrity Organized by Department of Information Technology and Fr. Verstraeten Central Library. The target participants for the workshop are research scholars, academicians, industry professionals and corporates.

A one-day seminar was organized by the Department of Bengali, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Raghabpur Campus.

The theme of the seminar was “Chaitanyite Culture and Medieval Bengali literature”. Professor Aparna Roy of Dept. of Bengali, Visva -harati and Professor Rajat Sanyal of Dept. of Archaeology, University of Calcutta graced the event as speakers. The event was inaugurated with kirtans performed by the students of the department. The address of welcome was delivered by Father Johnson Padiyara, Vice Principal of St. Xavier’s College (Raghabpur Campus).

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Departments of Chemistry & Physics presented an Inter-disciplinary National Workshop on “ROLE OF DFT IN PREDICTING

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES & REACTION PATHWAY”

(DBT STAR COLLEGE PROGRAMME)

Speakers

Prof. Swapan K Pati (JNCASR, Bangalore)

Dr. Anoop Ayyappan (IIT, Kharagpur)

Jt. Conveners: Dr. Ankur Ray (HOD, Chemistry) &

Dr. Indranath Chaudhury (HOD, Physics)

Coordinator: Dr. Arup Kumar Mitra

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Commerce (XCS) organized X-PEDITION 2019.

With the end of X-PEDITION 2019, which was held on the 27th and the 28th of August,2019, students had experienced the best, when it came to an industrial visit. Anmol Industries Limited was generous enough to let us know the minute details in which they make biscuits and cakes. Students were also given snacks from Anmol, comprising biscuits and cakes. The overall journey seemed to be reminiscing and everyone enjoyed themselves. The bus journey was also no less of a fun journey, with students socialising and playing games with one another. XCS firmly believes that such experiences help individuals gather experiences of a life which they shall have to face after college, that is, life of a corporate world and hence, such experiences are of immense worth to the students.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Xaverian Research Colloquium — ANUSANDHAN – Lecture 10

Topic- The Visual Identity of the Mahabharata

Speaker- Prof. Sankha Banerjee

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, The Xavier’s Commerce Society recently organized Corporate Prodigy.

Corporate Prodigy involves school students participating in business management simulations. They are given a reflection of the corporate world, a world beyond schools and colleges, a world that they will have to enter in the crucial stages of their life. Three events, namely merger of finance, marketing and hr, merger of business quiz and business plan and best manager are organized for X-Calibre. Participants are made to interact with each other, as well as the XCS Board. The event concluded with Rev. Peter Arockiam (Vice-Principal of B.Com evening) distributing certificates to all the winner schools.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, The Department of English conducted a one -of -a-kind event ‘Blues and Hues’

It was an afternoon filled with poetry reading, poetry slamming and musical performances  . The Special Guest for the afternoon was “The Live Guitar God “-Mr. Amyt Datta. This programme strove to relive, revisit and revive an art form that is fast dwindling :The Blues.

The Adivasi Yuva Chetna Manch Commission of All India Catholic University Federation (AICUF), West Bengal organized a seminar on the theme Rights, Resources and Recognition, discussing various pertinent issues regarding the denial of the common rights and resource to the various tribal communities.

A `One Day International Workshop on Coarse Geometry’ jointly conducted by the Department of Physics and Mathematics, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata.  The workshop was funded from the DBT Star College Grant. The principal, Rev.Dr. Dominic Savio, S.J. inaugurated the programme and wished it success. The speaker for the day was Dr. Atish J. Mitra from the Department of Mathematics, Montana Tech (University of Montana), USA.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, NCC in collaboration with XADAM celebrated Independence Day. In this day with a special Guard of Honour to the chief guest Brig. Samir Verma, head of Signals, Eastern Command, followed by a meticulously thought out and beautifully executed cultural programme by the Xaverian Academy of Dance and Music, depicting what it’s like to live addressing the issues we still grapple with and fight for freedom from. NCC shares the nation’s pride and joy on the momentous occasion of the country’s 73^rd

Independence Day and the year throughout and extends warm wishes to it’s fellow citizens for the same. Jai Hind.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, The Xavier’s Commerce Society organized X-Calibre.

X-Calibre involves participants from all fields participating in 7 different events of their choices. Carrying our legacy forward, X-Calibre again experienced huge crowds and turned into a grand success. The participants were engulfed in ambiguous and mind storming rounds and their positive experience reflected well in the feedbacks collected.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Department of Bangla, organized Maitreyee Sarkar Memorial Lecture and Cultural Programme.

The State Women’s Commission (SWC) of All India Catholic University Federation (AICUF), West Bengal organized a seminar on the theme Women Beyond Belief, discussing various pertinent issues regarding women and religion. The seminar was organized on 9th August,2019 at Rohinton Kapadia Hall, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, The Department of Sociology organized a Talk on “Sociology in and of the City” for 3rd year Sociology students by Prof Peter Doak of School of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Leeds on 9th August 2019. The talk was on “Sociology in and of the City”. It was attended by 3 faculty members including the HOD. The session was a lively interactive one. The students benefited from this session and the Leeds faculty and representative were much impressed by the level of knowledge of our students that became evident in the course of this interactive lecture.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, inaugurated the first event of Hindi literary Society – Aamna Saamna

It was an opportunity for the students to embark with the mastery of language. It was a platform to showcase their debating skills. On the very first day the inauguration was held by Mrs. Kiran Singh, Assistant Professor, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, The Xaverian Academy of Dance And Music (XADAM) organized, ‘Dawn to Dusk – The Rooftop Concert’.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, organized Blood Donation Camp 2019.

112 students volunteered for the 50^th Blood Donation Camp. On that day nine blood banks, namely Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre and Research Institute, R.G.Kar, SSKM, IBTM, Canning, Mercy Hospital, National Medical, NRS and M.R. Bangur were present to cater to the steady inflow of donors. The camp started at 7:00 am and came to an end at 6:30 pm with a donor count of 601.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, The Xavier’s Management Society presented X-GENESIS’19. There were two speaker sessions organized by the Xavier’s Management Society in X-Genesis for which distinguished speakers were arranged:

1. Mr. Sahil Shah, the founder of East India Comedy and Youth  Influencer.

2. Mr. Rajiv Ghosh, the CEO at Selvel One Group and Mr. Mudassar  Hossain, the Managing Partner at Ogilvy.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Entrepreneur Development Cell organized a two-day competitive programme for students and learners. The programme was distributed in six rounds. Starting with about 200 participants the final level ended with 8 finalists. The basis for selection of Top 3 was performance in Rounds 5 and 6, with different weightage. Overall, the event judged Innovation, Spontaneity, Public Speaking, Body Language, Number Skills, negotiations, Composure, Quick Thinking.

One day National Seminar on “Data Science- The key to Future”, was jointly organized by the Departments of Computer Science and Statistics, in collaboration with The Data Science Foundation on 22^nd July 2019, at Fr. Depelchin Auditorium. Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs of University of Calcutta, Prof. Asis Kr Chattopadhyay was the Chief Guest and Dean of Faculty Councils for PG studies in Engineering and Technology, University of Calcutta, Prof. Amlan Chakraborty was the Guest of Honour. Mr. Kaustav Majumdar and Mr. Gautam Banerjee, from Data Science foundation were the first two speakers of the day. Prof. Sourabh Bhattacharya from Indian Statistical Institute and Mr. Sanjoy Karmakar from IBM were speakers for the third and fourth session respectively. More than 400 students from our college, along with teachers and professionals from Other Colleges/Universities attended the seminar.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Ninth Lecture of Xaverian Research Colloquium (XRC) — Anusandhan was delivered by Dr. Arindam mandal, Associate Professor and Chair of the Economics Department Siena College, new York, USA on 15^th July, 2019 at 3 P.M. in room 15 on the topic “ Does Greater Political representation of Women help to Protect Worker Rights? A Cross-national Investigation.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata The Xavier’s Commerce Society Organized the INCEPTION 2019. Inception seeks to test of participants, who are mainly 1^st years and grill them to the highest level. Forwarding our legacy, this year we witnessed a variety of students trying to explore their potential. Proceeding from the Group Discussion, the chosen participants were asked to sit in a personal interview and further rounds.

DBT STAR College Programme

Inter-disciplinary Lecture on ‘Variation of Cooperativety and the role of Ligand-field states in spin-crossover’ as a part of the DBT STAR College Programme, by Dr. Pradip Kumar Chakraborty of the Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur.

Undergraduate students of Chemistry & Physics department participated in the programme.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, The Xavier’s Commerce Society recently organized INNOVITION’ 19 hosting a plethora of speakers from various educational and corporate institutions, the eminent ones being RDI, Deloitte, World Bank, Toastmasters and many more.

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association organized Distribution of Relief materials for School Children and Specially- abled Children of various Philanthropic organizations by the name of “Share To Care” initiative

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association Organized 15th Edition – Knowledge And Exchange Series. Topic: Do’s & Don’ts in the upcoming Festive season amidst Covid Pandemic.

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association organized Webinar on “All you need to know about heart attacks and it’s prevention” with Dr. Anjan Siotia via zoom / Facebook live

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, Alumni Association presented Webinar on ”The Life, Works And Legacy Of Fr. Gaston Roberge, S.J.”

 

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association organized Tree plantation with St. Xavier’s Community Fathers at St. Xavier’s College Raghabpur

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association: 12th Edition Of Knowledge And Ideas Xchange: Webinar on “Behavioural Changes In Financial Markets And Investment Opportunities In The Post-Covid Economy”

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association organized An Interactive session with Mr. Mayank Khemka and Mr. Naresh Pachisia on Behavioural Changes in Financial Markets and Investment Opportunities in the post-COVID Economy via zoom / Facebook live

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association organized Birthday of Father Principal Rev. Dr. Dominic Savio S.J., the President of the Alumni Association and celebrated Philanthropy Day held at Xavier Hall.

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association: 11th Edition Of Knowledge And Ideas Xchange: Interactive Session With Dr. Sumit Sengupta “ Bursting Myths And Knowing More About Covid 19”

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association facilitated Relief distributions at the Amphan affected Villages under Kakdwip Police Station in the jurisdiction of Sundarbans Police at Bamanagar, Khorimutha, Mollarchowk, Pukurberia, Narayanpur at Namkhana

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association facilitated Relief distributions at the Amphan affected Villages under Kakdwip Police Station in the jurisdiction of Sundarbans Police at Bamanagar, Khorimutha, Mollarchowk, Pukurberia, Narayanpur at Namkhana

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association facilitated Relief camps at SXC Raghabpur Campus, hosted hundreds of villagers with basic amenities like water, electricity and food plates for next 3 days after the Amphan devastations

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association organized Beyond Barrier: First Digital Edition by Pandit Bickram Ghosh held via zoom / Facebook live

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association: 10^th Edition of Knowledge And Ideas Xchange: “Mind Hack Show”

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association organized Interactive session with Tushar Kumar (Illusionist) held via zoom / Facebook live

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association facilitated the distribution of Food Packets to more than 350 families by Fathers of St. Xavier’s Community at College Quadrangle.

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association organized Interactive session with Jawhar Sircar — “Is Media more Dangerous than Helpful” at Fr. D’Souza Hall

 

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata Bengali Literary Society (B.L.S) in Association with St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association presented Xavullash 2020

 

St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association organized a program with St. Xavier’s Community Fathers.

 

SANYOG – “An Ode to Language Martyrs”
“Sanyog” rally was organised by St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association and Bengali Literary Society to commemorate International Mother Language Day. The rally started from the College Hostel, 219/1 A.J.C.Bose Road at 9:30 a.m. sharp on 21st February 2020 and reach the front gate.

 

St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association organized Interactive session with Mr. Naveen Prakash, IAS, ACS – Industry & Domain Expert at Fr. D’Souza Hall

 

St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association organized Womens’ Forum Seminar. The program was held at Fr. D’Souza Hall

 

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association presented Beyond Barriers Chapter Twenty Vishal & Shekhar Live in Concert

 

St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association organized Interactive session by Dr. Rahul Jain -Bursting Myths & Health tips on Diabetes at Fr. D’Souza Hall

 

St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association organized 4^th edition of International Inter University Challenge Debate 2020 at Fr. Deplechin Auditorium

 

St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association organized Annual Reunion Dinner 2019 — Sangam, at College Grounds

 

St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association organized Christmas Celebrations with Chief Minister of West Bengal, Ms. Mamata Banerjee at Fr. Deplechin Auditorium

 

St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association organized Christmas Meet at Fr. Deplechin Auditorium

 

St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association organized Interactive session by Gautam Mohan Chakrabarti, IPS on Online/Electronic Frauds

 

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association:  Fr. Provincial’s visitation with the Alumni/ae was held at Fr. D’Souza Hall

 

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association organized An Interactive Session with Ms. Rani Mukherjee at Fr. Deplechin Auditorium

 

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association organized Annual Tea Meet by Womens’ Forum at Fr. Deplechin Auditorium

 

St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association organized Interactive session by Dr. Shaikh Hassan Iqbal on Fitness & Orthopaedic Tips at Fr. D’Souza Hall

 

St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association organized Interactive session by Dr. Rahul Jain -Bursting Myths & Health tips on Diabetes at Fr. D’Souza Hall

 

St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association organized 4^th edition of International Inter University Challenge Debate 2020 at Fr. Deplechin Auditorium