Bhubaneswar: Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar has celebrated the 68th Republic Day of India with a different note. Social Responsibility Cell (SRC) of XIMB- XUB organized Para Athlos, a sports meet for specially abled children at the XUB grounds today (26 January 2017) to commemorate the Republic Day of India with a vision of letting the specially abled ones take flight in the area of sports.
More than 100 participants of both senior and junior age groups from Shri Harsha Memorial School for Deaf and Dumb, Pallaspalli, Bhubaneswar participated the Para Athlos event. The event succeeded in bringing out the innate talents of these children through various sporting events like volleyball, lemon spoon race, football, back-race, badminton, skipping and tug of war. Trophies and certificates of the various events were handed over by Father Arockia, Assistant Registrar (Admin) and Student Affairs, Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier University and Fr. Donald D’Silva, Director, Finance and Associate Professor, Communication, Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier University.
XIMB-XUB has always prophesized the paramount importance of the needs of society and have included projects that focus on the society at large in their course curriculum to sensitize their upcoming managers towards their responsibility for the society at large.
