Thursday, April 26, 2012


St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni to organize “Beautiful Bengal”in Singapore:

Event to showcase West Bengal as an investment destination


Xaverians from around the world congregate in an annual meet Beyond Boundaries, hosted by one of its global chapters to renew their ties with the alma mater and strengthen their bonds of fraternity. This year, the third chapter of the event is being held in the city state of Singapore between the 11th and the 13th of May, 2012.

Xaverians, who have always taken the lead and excelled in every domain they occupy, have decided to use the global platform to do their bit for the home state of West Bengal. A B2B meet – Beautiful Bengal – which will feature the advantages that a resurgent Bengal has to offer and the opportunities that are there for industry houses and investors from the Far East to avail is being organized along with the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (SICCI) and the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).

The meet will be held on the 11th of May, 2012 between 3 and 5 PM where Xaverians from around the world apart from representatives of Trade, Industry and Commerce from Singapore and other countries of the Far East will attend. 

The Government of West Bengal has appreciated this unique effort and has deputed Sri. Partha Chatterjee, Honourable Minister of Industries, to lead a high profile delegation of industrialists, bureaucrats and academicians who will highlight the advantages of investing and doing business in West Bengal.

“We believe that it is time West Bengal kept her tryst with economic destiny and regained her rightful place in the sun” said Rev.Fr. Dr. J. Felix Raj, SJ, Principal of the St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and President, SXCCAA. “We are duty bound to use the global network of Xaverians to highlight the opportunities that Bengal has to offer so as to help in the process of economic development.”

“The winds of change have brought in its wake new hopes” said Firdausul Hasan, Hon. Secretary of SXCCAA. “We at SXCCAA want to ensure that this wind becomes a gale that will change the face of the state’s economic development. It is our humble tribute to our motherland and in the true spirit of Nihil Ultra (nothing beyond) we will leave no stones unturned till we achieve what we have set out to

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