St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi will be conducting its annual three- day fest from February 7 to February 9 based on the theme ‘Umeed- A ray of Hope’ in the college premises and more than 10,000 students will be a part of the mega event.
A press conference was addressed by Dean of Student Welfare Dr Marcus Barla, Cultural Co-ordinator Dr Kamal Kumar Bose, fest coordinators Abhijeet Dey, Rajiv Shrivastava and Shrunat Koley regarding the details of the Xavier Utsav 2020 on Wednesday.
The event will be inaugurated on February 7 at 9:30 am. The chief guest for the occasion will be Nitesh Kumar Singh who is an IAS topper of Jharkhand and also all India ranker 23 in 2017 and is presently the ITDA Project Director in Jamtara. The guest of honour will be Utkarsh Gupta who secured the 78th rank in IAS in 2017 and is currently SDO, Bundu. Popular television actor Krishna Bharadwaj will also be present for VOXA- Voice of Xavier.
“The theme of the fest is ‘Umeed’ which means hope. In today’s time and age hope is required for everything. ‘Umeed par akash thama hua hai’. If there is no hope life will become insipid. The programmes like VOXA, gives the students of the college a chance to discover their hidden talent in singing,” said the cultural co- ordinator. Apart from events like debate and extempore, the event will include other programmes like graffiti art (wal painting), pasqinade (cartoon making), Xavier quest (treasure hunt) and affiche (poster making) on the first day. 2nd day will have an ad mad show, tug of war, the face canvas (face painting), chatechze (quiz) and enclothe (design your dress) among others. The third day will have exuberance- a fashion show, XIM, group song and virtual titan (PUBG). The informal events of the fest include a rock show and chhatore- non fire cooking.
