Laurels to XLRI Jamshedpur at Global B-Schools Meet organized by Sasin Graduate School of Business, Thailand

XLRI- Xavier School of Management wins in the categories of Best Sustainable Development and Most Favorite Team of the Group at the Mai Bangkok Business Challenge organized by Sasin Graduate School of Business at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) recently.

The three member students team of Global MBA programme represented XLRI at the global B-School Competition. The members of participating team were Sankalp Akash Singh, Anudeep Purwar, and Atul Kumar, who presented the project Jeevan Dhara, a low cost, community based water hand-pump which runs without the need for electricity and removes all water contamination and water quality is ensured all year round by using a monitoring system.

Dr. J. Singh, Chairperson, International Relations at XLRI and the Faculty Advisor of the team commented, The project Jeevan Dhara was conceptualised by our students as a unique initiative keeping in mind the unmet needs of the underserved rural community. Our students had put in their best efforts and I congratulate the team for this success.

Sankalp, one of the members of the XLRI contingent remembering their experience at the competition said, The event proved to be a great learning curve for us. Along with the competition, the organizers had also arranged for cultural tour for the team members which proved to be an enlightening experience and exposed us to the mesmerizing Thai Culture.

Fr. E. Abraham, Director of XLRIcommented, I am extremely happy for our team who represented our institution in the global forum. I congratulate them for this achievement.

48 B-schools from all over the world, including Queensland University of Technology- Australia, Rice University- United States of America, Cornell University- United States of America, INSEAD- Singapore, University of Dhaka- Bangladesh, Indian School of Business- India, National Chiao Tung University- China (Taiwan), Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi- India, Technical University of Denmark- Denmark among others participated in the competition.

About XLRI

XLRI Jamshedpur is a premier, private management institute inIndia founded in 1949 by Fr Quinn Enright, S.J. in the Steel city of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Over the last six decades, XLRI has helped shape responsible business leaders who serve organizations of repute across the globe. As an institution,XLRIcontinuallystrives to contribute itsmite to the professional growth and management of innumerableorganizations that serve the public - especially organized industry sectors, labour welfare, service agencies engaged in rural development, education, health and other public systems.

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