Women’s Day celebration at Raghabpur campus and Launch of Project Udaan.
On International Women’s Day (8 March 2026), the Centre of Gender Studies at the Raghabpur Campus of St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, in collaboration with the St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association (SXCCAA), launched Project UDAAN – “Learn & Earn”, an initiative aimed at empowering rural women through skill development and livelihood opportunities. The programme received an encouraging response, with over 250 women registering to participate. The project will provide free hands-on training in producing marketable items such as designer envelopes, rakhis, gift bags and pickles, enabling women to earn sustainably. The training and marketing support will be led by Sangita Sureka along with the SXCCAA Philanthropy Team. The launch event was attended by distinguished guests including Swati Nandi Chakraborty and actress Mimi Dutta, who appreciated the initiative promoting grassroots women’s empowerment.
Project Udaan " Learn & Earn" is a unique initiative by SXCCAA for Women's Empowerment & socio economic development of villages surrounding our Raghabpur Campus. The USP of this project is the mission to make men and women associated in this project , financially independent in their own comfort areas and skills. With an overwhelming response of more than 250 women coming together to register for this project,shows the immense confidence and faith bestowed upon us. Project UDAAN will run in two phases , 25 women in each batch with 4 courses running skill to make designer envelopes , Rakhi , gift bags and pickles and many more. All the women will be given hands on free training by experts and after training raw materials will be provided by us to the women and then the final product will be collected and will be duly paid for their efforts.Training & marketing will be done by the skill developer Mrs.Sangita Sureka and Team Philanthrohy of SXCCAA. We are extremely confident of the project and envision it to be one of the most powerful NARI SHAKTI projects of SXCCAA.
