St. Xavier's School, Ranchi

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St. Xavier's School, Doranda, Ranchi
[[Image:St Xaviers[1] Logo.JPG|120px|center|Emblem, St. Xaviers]]
Location
Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Information
Principal	Fr. Ajit Kumar Xess and Fr. Brituis Ekka
Students	1000
Type	Private
Established	1960
Homepage	stxaviersschool.com

St. Xavier's School in Doranda, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India was founded in 1960 and till around 2002 enjoyed an unchallenged position as Jharkhand`s (and before that Bihar`s) best school in every aspect^{[citation needed]}. It is named after Saint Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order).

The school is run by the Society of Jesus and provides education for about 1,000 students from kindergarten to standard 12. Plus two (+2) was started around the year 2000 and was until recently running under the guidance of the late Hira Prasad.

Until about 1976 the school used to follow the Cambridge Higher Secondary curriculum and now follows the Indian Certificate for Secondary Education (ICSE) curriculum. Many students from the school leave to join St. Xavier's College, Ranchi or other schools offering education beyond standard 10. The school has also had a distinguished history of feeding students into the leading engineering colleges (IITs and BIT, NIT's ,KIIT etc.) and medical colleges of India^{[citation needed]}.

Many students come from local business families and have stayed on to become part of their businesses. Until about 1990 the only competition the school faced for boys' education was from the DAV School nearby^{[citation needed]}. Since then several other schools (e.g. Delhi Public School) have opened and provide further options for boys' education.

Contents 1 Miscellanea 2 Well known Alumni 2.1 Business, Industry 2.2 Television, Press, Other Media 2.3 Films, Entertainment, Other Arts 2.4 Government 2.5 Academia, Research 2.6 Sports 3 External links

[edit] Miscellanea

• Students and alumni are referred as Xaverians, or more specifically DOXs.
• The Old Xaverians are mainly networked through their Yahoo group. It welcomes all Old Xaverians to join in and stay in touch with the other alumni. The alumni try to meet up occasionally in major locations like Mumbai, Delhi, SF Bay Area, Singapore etc., besides the regular meets at Ranchi. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stxaviersranchi/
• The school shares its bus facility with the Loreto Convent with whom Xaverians tend to have a love/hate relationship.
• The Plus two section is co-educational. Otherwise the school is a boys-only school until standard 10th.
• "Red stairs" refers to the pulpit where every morning school assembly has been conducted for years.

[edit] Well known Alumni

[edit] Business, Industry

• Ravi Prasad, 1976 Batch, President / CEO, The Himalaya Drug Company, Bangalore, India
• Phaneesh Murthy, 1978 Batch( Left school in sixth)(Founder, iGate; Prior Worldwide Head of Sales and Marketing, & Board Member, Infosys)
• Surya Mantha, 1978 Batch (CEO, Web18; Prior to this appointment, Mantha was heading the interactive service business for Sify India, based out of Chennai, while before this, he was with RealNetworks in Seattle, USA.)
• Sabyasachi Sen, 1978 Batch (left school in fifth grade), VP of Finance and Controller At HoMedics Inc., USA, Formerly Corporate Controller of the NutraSweet Company in Chicago, USA
• Mrityunjay Singh, 1980 Batch, India Head, Volvo Construction Equipments
• Ashutosh Roy, 1981 Batch (CEO, Egain communications, www.egain.com)
• Pramath Jha, 1980 Batch, Head Telecom Practice Consulting, TCS, UK
• Vivek Malhotra, 1982 Batch (Marketing Director, Lenovo, India)
• Saumen Prasad, 1990 Batch, Founder, PriServe e-Solutions (India, UK, USA)
• Pranav Sharma, 1993 Batch, Founding member and nominee shareholder - Grameen Capital India Public Limited
• B. S. Mahadev, 1976 Batch, Director, W L Ross India
• Atanu Roy, 1985 Batch, Practice Head, Manufacturing & Distribution Industries, HP India
• Vinay Jalan, 1981 Batch, Chairamn ICSI,Ranchi, Senior Consultant O.P.Jalan & Associates,International Law Firm.

[edit] Television, Press, Other Media

• Ashutosh Sinha is no more with CNBC Awaaz. He left awaaz in the month of March 2007 and is currently working with NDTV Profit.
• Anirban Sengupta (now Joy Sengupta)-- Senior reporter, Khaleej Times, DUBAI (UAE).

[edit] Films, Entertainment, Other Arts

• Abhishek Chaubey 1993 batch (screenplay, dialogue, Associate Director - "Omkara"), Associate Director-"Maqbool","Makdee", Associated Director & Screenplay-"The Blue Umbrella"

[edit] Government

• Nilaya Mitash, 1981 Batch, Director of Municipal Administration, Bangalore
• Sajal Chakravarty (DC, Ranchi)
• Tajinder Singh, 1982 batch, IAS Officer, Mumbai
• Piyush Pandey, 1984 batch, IPS officer, West bengal cadre
• Anand Bahl, ____
• Rajiv Arun Ekka, 1980, IAS, Jharkhand
• Adarsh Katiyar, 1983 batch, DIG, MP Cadre

[edit] Academia, Research

• Onuttom Narayan (1980 Batch), Professor of Physics, University of California at Sant Cruz
• Suprateek Sarkar (1981 batch), Professor at University of Washington at Pullman

[edit] Sports

• Amitabh Chaudhary (Former Manager, Indian Cricket Team)

St. Xaviers school's basketball team is one of the best in the state. The school also promotes different co-corricular activities.^{[citation needed]}

v • d • e Schools in Jharkand Bishop Westcott Boys' School – Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Badri Narayan Saha Public School – Carmel Convent School – DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali – De Nobili School, FRI – Little Flower School Jamshedpur – Loyola School, Jamshedpur – Sacred Heart Convent School – St. John's High School, Ranchi – St. Xavier's School, Bokaro – St. Xavier's School, Ranchi – St. Xavier's, Hazaribagh – St.Thomas School, Ranchi – Surendranath Centenary School – Vikas Vidyalaya – Vikas Vidyalaya, Ranchi – Vivekananda Vidya Mandir

[edit] External links

• St Xavier's web-site

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