St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), 30 Mother Teresa Sarani Kolkata 700016 West Bengal, India

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Enactus

ABOUT US:

Enactus St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata is part of a global devout student fraternity that capitalises on social entrepreneurship as instrumental in invigorating the potential prowess across the forsaken segments of our society. We establish student programmes on campuses across the nation and apply business concepts to develop entrepreneurial projects that transform lives and shape a better, more sustainable world.

Objectives:

  • To make a positive impact in the lives of the underprivileged by the ideal of capacity building
  • To provide its members with a mock corporate  journey to gain experience and skills and build contacts for a successful career.
  • Learning and delivery of knowledge and information is not the only objective; Enactus initiatives analyse and strive to reach the projected figures and attain tangible outcomes such as the income status of our beneficiaries, community upliftment through our ventures etc.
  • Ultimately, our projects promise long term sustainability by the eventual transfer of its operations to our adopted beneficiaries.

PROJECT SHUDDHI:

Analogous to its objective of channelling entrepreneurial skills of students onto real-world problems, Enactus SXC has launched Project Shuddhi which provides clean drinking water at a significantly low rate of about Rs.0.085/litre. The project has already made its way into remote areas of West Bengal like the districts of Purulia, Nadia, and parts of North 24 Parganas. Project Shuddhi comes off as an extremely promising endeavour, determined to uplift communities.

PROJECT PATTRANG:

In an attempt at rejuvenating the 2000-year-old heritage art form of Pattachitra, Enactus SXC launched Project Pattrang in February, 2020. By equipping the artists, the Chitrakars or Patuas with sufficient knowledge about current consumer inclinations and providing them with access to a marketplace, Project Pattrang helps them to gain a steady flow of income. Project Pattrang received recognition from the Biswa Bangla Corporation on February 22, 2022, for its outstanding efforts to create a workplace that is secure and sustainable for Chitrakars.

PROJECT UTHAAN:

Enactus SXC’s upcoming initiative, Project Uthaan focuses on upliftment of the residents of Ghoramara, an island in the Bay of Bengal’s Sunderban Delta Complex, who face the challenge of island sinking due to the extreme climatic conditions that aggravate soil erosion and increase sea level. This results in deprivation of basic income of the farmers due to degradation in cultivable land. We hope to allay the concerns of the islanders by introducing the cultivation of spirulina, a nutrient-rich cyanobacteria biomass that could be used to create ecologically sound vitamin supplements, greatly demanded by the present pharmaceutical industry, through our establishment of spirulina farms with the help of the self-grown spirulina culture developed by the Microbiology Department of St. Xavier’s College.

OUR INITIATIVES:

Enthusia, the annual flagship event aims at greatly enhancing students’ corporate knowledge. It tests the students’ perseverance, innovation and presentation skills and cultivates a higher sense of vision, comprehension and ideation through a series of events and competitions in marketing, human resource, public relation, crisis management, business planning and graphic designing.
With the dictum, “Educate to Empower” the annual book donation drive, Daksh, was conducted which successfully collected and donated 5500 books in April 2022. It is an effort to provide underprivileged children with the essentials that they have always sought. The project achieved outstanding success even after a period of a 2-year hiatus.
The annual interactive session, Outreach is a platform where dignitaries talk about important social issues in an effort to foster awareness among today’s youth and to unlock their entrepreneurial potential. This event seeks to advance a comprehensive view of entrepreneurship and cultivate a group of leaders who want to help others by bringing about business opportunities.

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