The Hindu Business Line : XLRI scales heights

XLRI students of the LEADERSHIP EXPEDITION to Mount Everest Base Camp with Major General Arun Roye, GOC - Bengal and Fr N. C. Raj Director of XLRI Jamshedpur. — Sushanta Patronobish.

It is an initiative is aimed at developing leadership traits among the young managers of tomorrow.

It's also aimed at providing up-and-coming business managers an exposure to what is euphemistically called "the other side of India." This is the XLRI Leadership Expedition 2006 (XLE 2006) to Mount Everest Base Camp, the first-of-its-kind initiative taken by XLRI, Jamshedpur.

On March 13, Maj. Gen. Arun Roye, GOC, Bengal Area, flagged off an expedition of an 18-member team from XLRI that is headed to the Mount Everest Base Camp. The expedition will be an annual event with the place and mission being unique each year. The XLE 2006, launched in association with CARE India and Tata Steel Adventure Foundation, will head for the Mount Everest Base Camp, with a mission to spread awareness about AIDS.

Says Fr. N. Casimir Raj, S.J, Director of XLRI Jamshedpur, "The expedition is aimed at inculcating leadership skills both at the individual level and at the society level. Our students have learnt about leadership in the classrooms. This is an opportunity to test in out in the field."

According to him, by spreading AIDS awareness during the expedition, the students would learn about social consciousness and their responsibilities "as future corporate citizens" to the "other side of India." XLRI has already taken several initiatives to facilitate "rural connect" between its students and "the other side of India."

Fr. Raj said that over 700 of the XLRI alumni had become entrepreneurs. "We want our students to become professional experts in their chosen areas and be aware and informed of the problems faced by the country and society. And we also want them to try to solve these problems in their individual capacities and in their respective capacities as corporates. We can sow the seeds and help them in preparing the groundwork. As an educational institution, that is what we can do and that is what we are doing," he said. The leader of XLE 2006, Abhinav Anand, said the connect with the other side of India in the course of the expedition would help the future leaders of corporate India discharge their corporate social responsibilities with greater compassion.

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