Sunday, October 19, 2008

XLER Live on Radio (93.5 S FM)!

Ankur Saboo will be live on Radio (93.5 S FM) today from 12 noon till 2:00 PM for a program called "Prayaas".

He will be talking about the social entrepreneurial venture that has been developed by three seniors (BM 07-09); Ankur Saboo, Abhilash Soman and Anand Raghavendran.

Swavalamban is a business venture that is being taken up by a group of senior students of senior students of XLRI. It is about an ox driven generator to help electrify rural villages that are too far away from the National Grid for conventional electrification. They have been working on the concept and have developed the working product. They had given a presentation to NGOs that visited XLRI on 17th October. Following are the links and snippets of news articles about the presentation.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081018/jsp/jharkhand/story_9985179.jsp

http://www.tatanagar.com/news-on-educational-institutions/xlri-powers-rural-life-2.html



Chapeau Prof shukla

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