Centre for Incubation, Consultancy & Entrepreneurship (CICE) of
St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata
Organized
Faculty Orientation Programme on Consultancy
Venue: Fr. Albert Huart Hall, Arrupe Building
Date & Time: 17th December 2021, Friday, 1015 hrs to 1300 hrs
Participants: SXUK Faculty Members

Centre for Incubation, Consultancy and Entrepreneurship (CICE), established by St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata, is strongly focusing on Consultancy projects having high applicability including socio-economic implications of the results, through industry-academia partnership. CICE has conducted a study to map major interest areas of respected faculty members for consultancy projects. Some of the interest areas are organizational designing & strategy, labour law, women & child welfare, CSR activities, organization culture management, conflict management, soft skills,  analytics in decision making, rural development,  NGO management, stock & derivative Market etc.

St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata, encourages its faculty members to undertake consultancy projects with the Government Departments, PSUs, Corporate Sector, Industry bodies, NGOs and Academic institutions across the globe. The consultancy projects will facilitate the exchange of knowledge & expertise, and create social awareness, for the greater good of global society.For existence and continuous expansion, industries require a swift transition or augmentation to the updated ways in 2022, where consultancy service plays highly important role. Therefore, in today’s context, this is highly important for consultants to adapt new skill set to stay competitive as well.

In this backdrop, CICE of St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata conducted a Faculty Orientation Programme on Consultancy on 17th December 2021 at University Campus for all Faculty members.

The programme started with kind blessings and Welcome Ad0dress by Rev. Fr. Dr. J. Felix Raj, S.J., Father VC has kindly mentioned the 4 pillars of higher education as the Education Policy 2020 announced- Excellence, Equity, Employability and Expansion. As a support to these 4 pillars there are support pillars e.g. Teaching & Learning, Innovation, Research, Consultancy etc. Research adds to the knowledge and Consultancy shares the knowledge. He mentioned the benchmark set by MIT in terms of consultancy and winning noble prizes. Consultancy in terms of advice and beyond advice plays vital role in development of a country.

The programme was enriched by sharing of huge spectrum of knowledge and deep insights on consultancy by Dr. Anup Kumar Sinha,  Non-Executive (Independent) Chairman - Bandhan Bank, Former Professor – IIMC, and Dr. Gautam Dutta, Professor- IIFT Kolkata & Delhi, highlighting the importance & impact of taking up various consultancy projects at present scenario serving the social good,  requirements for consultancy projects across Commerce, Management, English, Economics, Media Science, Law and other functions. The programme concluded with Vote of Thanks by Ms. Bidisha Roy, Executive Director- CICE.

Dignitaries present during the programme were:

• Rev. Fr. Dr. J. Felix Raj, S.J. Vice-Chancellor, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata
• Dr. Anup Kumar Sinha, Non-Executive (Independent) Chairman - Bandhan Bank, Former Professor – IIMC
• Dr. Gautam Dutta, Professor- IIFT & Director IQAC
• Ms. Bidisha Roy, Executive Director- CICE, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata