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About Xavier Institute of Social Action (XISA)
Xavier Institute of Social Action (XISA) is a Jesuit run organisation. It is the fifth Xavier Institute in the Central-Northern part of the country followed by Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Xavier Institute of Social Services (XISS), Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB) and Xavier Institute of Development Action & Studies (XIDAS).
After the formation of Chhattisgarh on November 1, 2000, the Madhya Pradesh Jesuits seriously thought of establishing a centre in Raipur, which would function as a nodal resource centre for development of the newly formed State in terms of project implementation,training, research, networking and advocacy. It was also envisaged that this centre would facilitate the utilisation of the government resources for the development of scheduled tribes, scheduled castes and other poor communities. As it is located in the capital city of the State, the centre also has a task of information dissemination on development and related fields. These thoughts of Jesuits have been actualized as Xavier Institute of Social Action.
Jesuit presence in Southern part of Chhattisgarh was there as Xavier Institute of Development Action and Studies (XIDAS), Jabalpur had an extension centre in Raipur. This extension centre was made because then Madhya Pradesh State was geographically too big and XIDAS wanted to do development work in the South-Eastern part of the State. With the help of Broederlijk Delen (BD) a Belgian agency, XIDAS worked with and for Panchayati Raj Institutions for socio-economic development of four Panchayats of Bastar (now these Panchayats come under Kanker district). The extension centre was in a rented house. After the construction of XISA building, the President of the Institute asked the Director of XIDAS to shift the extension office to XISA. Till 31st December 2010 XIDAS extension programme was managed from XISA. During this period all the programmes of XIDAS extension at Raipur were executed by XISA.
XISA is a charitable non-profit social and developmental Institute. It is registered under the Chhattisgarh Society Registration Act, 1973. It engages in implementing programmes, conducting action research, training & capacity building programmes for holistic development of the deprived and vulnerable people. Institute is working for the empowerment of disadvantaged and deprived masses, especially poverty-stricken men, women, youth and children. Its services, benefits and resources are available to all irrespective of caste, creed, race or gender.
Birth of XISA
XISA was registered under the Chhattisgarh Societies Registration Act 1972 on April 30, 2005.
Milestones of XISA
2005
Year of Establishment
Vision
An egalitarian and developed society.
Mission
Action oriented interventions for emancipation and development of human communities towards building a just and prosperous Society where love and peace prevails.
- To ensure and support community-based people’s organisation for development interventions.
- To build self-reliance among the people by mobilising resources, capacity building, employment opportunities, increasing assets and ensuring economic security.
- To assure social justice to the less fortunate members of the society who have been denied.
- To propagate participatory approaches in development.
- To affirm the strength of Tribal communities for their own development.
- To promote sustainable livelihoods of the marginalised, especially tribal.
- To promote health awareness.
- Accompaniment of tribals, dalits, women, children, youth and marginal farmers.
- Promotion of agro-based, forest-based, self-employment, entrepreneurship based sustainable livelihood alternatives and linkages.
- Promotion of preservation, conservation and management of natural resources.
- Promotion of the local self-governance institutions and increasing participation of the local community and citizens.
- Promotion of research and training activities
Governing Board Members
XISA adopts action oriented participatory and consultative approaches for community empowerment through following initiatives:
XISA is committed to the cause of people and communities, especially for their holistic and sustainable development. It involves itself in the selected communities and villages concentrating on various development thrust areas for development initiatives. To this end XISA, takes up development projects and implements them for people’s development. It has taken many such projects in and around Chhattisgarh and it made its presence felt. XISA has built up rapport in villages and people come forward to collaborate with it with open heart. It is their participation in the project that makes development projects successful.
XISA believes in pooling and sharing resources so that more and more people benefit from the available resources. It brings together persons from academia, civil society, corporate and Government to share their knowledge and expertise from their research and experiences so that people’s problems and issues can be addressed with new perspectives and dynamics. It also brings together experts of various fields for round table discussions and deliberations.
Major Sister Concerns in India
Development Centres
- Indian Social Institute, New Delhi
- Indian Social Institute, Bengaluru
Schools
- Campion School, Bhopal
- Campion School, Mumbai (Formerly Bombay)
- Loyola School, Jamshedpur
- St. Xavier’s School, Ranchi
- St. Xavier’s School, Patna
- St. Xavier’s School, Hazaribagh
- St. Xavier’s School, Mumbai
- St. Xavier’s School, Delhi
- St. Xavier’s School, Jaipur
College
- St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi
- St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata (Formerly Calcutta)
- St. Xavier’s Collage, Mumbai
- St. Xavier’s Collage, Ahmedabad
- Loyola College, Chennai
- St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling
- St. Joseph’s College, Trichy
- St. Aloysius College, Mangaluru
- Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada
Management Institutes
- XLRI, Jamshedpur
- LIBA, Chennai (Formerly Madras)
- XISS, Ranchi
- XIDAS, Jabalpur
- XIMB, Bhubaneshwar
Universities
- St. Joseph’s University, Bangalore
- St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata
- Xavier University, Bhubaneshwar
Connect with us today to join hands and amplify our mission, together making a positive impact on lives across the country.
- Xavier Institute of Social Action (XISA) Vidhan Sabha Road, Amaseoni, Post: GSITI, Via – MCF, Raipur-493 111 Chhattisgarh, INDIA
- +91- 9109133321
- xisa.raipur@gmail.com / xisa2005@gmail.com