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Along with these, SIGMA conducted
events goes on for the entire year.
This includes BCLP: Basic Computer
Learning Program, which train students
of schools in relevant computer
skills. The course consists of 15
sessions and each session is of two
hours. An enthusiastic participation
of 60 students was recorded for the
course. The classes were held every
Sunday with students of XLRI as the
facilitators. In addition to that, regular
Newspaper collection drives were
conducted in the campus, which was
later given to an NGO Green Garbage.
Also Spot fixing, Plantation & Road
safety drives were conducted towards
the end of January. A series of live
projects were organized throughout
the year including, Oyster Mushrooms:
designing methods to promote
these range of mushrooms grown in
the outskirts of Jamshedpur, Sabar:
Sustainable model for livelihood
creation, ACT: Helping out the women
from villages involved in creating
products from paper and many more.
SIGMA also conducted the Social
Entrepreneurship Conclave on 28
th
January, 2018 in which eminent social
entrepreneurs spoke about their
journey and business model. The
conference saw a participation of 70
people coming from different sectors.
Also, a sustainability summit, Asia
Meet 2018 was conducted from 9
th
-
11
th
February, in which oikos chapter
members from across Asia met to talk
about sustainability. The meet also
involved talk from eminent speakers
including Mr. Gopi Menon, Chief of
State officer, UNICEF, case study
competition, NGO visits, Jusco IOT
centre visit, Business plan competition
etc. The event also saw a participation
from 60 students from colleges around
Jamshedpur and got covered by various
newspapers.
2017 was another successful year for Student Investment Fund. As part of its
endeavor to cover more sectors, the fund started coverage of the financial services
sector in addition to the banking sector. Consequently, the junior team size was
increased to 6 from 5. On the operational side, the fund had changed its legal
structure to have faculty members as permanent trustee as opposed to rotating
trustees earlier. This will give a professional structure to the fund and streamline
investment activities. It initiated the process of having industry stalwarts review
the equity research work done by the team and we hope to deepen our ties with
the industry in years to come. It also aims to cover more sectors and incorporate
new strategies to achieve superior returns on a consistent basis.
XLRI Student
Investment Fund (SIF)
PIXL
PiXL is a student interest group (SIG) created by now alumni of XLRI in 2015.
The SIG was created with the purpose of capturing events and activities
organised at XLRI all around the year while encouraging student with interest
in photography to collectively pursue this art.
PiXL was under the functional committee ExLink in its two years of incubation,
during the academic year 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. In its third year, PiXL, as a
SIG had 17 members, 8 from the senior batch and 9 from the junior batch.
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