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Xavier
Institute deals with Management studies which necessarily teach
the techniques of development. Any development has to be
sustainable so that its impact lasts for a long period of time.
Sustainable development can be achieved through many ways. One
factor that causes sustainable development in human life is
empowerment and justice. Hence, Xavier Institute focuses on this
twin issue of Empowerment and Justice’.
Empowerment,
as the word itself suggests, means giving power or making
someone powerful. Development speaks of making progress or
making improvement in one’s situation, going or rising higher
than the previous situation. This may happen only through
capacity building. Once someone is aware of one’s power and
capacity and also learns the technique of using this capacity,
he/she will definitely use his/her capacity to make progress and
the process of development will begin and move forward.
Justice
here may mean ‘to be fair’ or ‘right’. In a world of
cut-throat-competition where every individual is down right
selfish to pursue one’s own motives even to the detriment of
others, one has to be wary of one’s rights and pursue it
courageously to be able to make progress.
Hence,
the Department of Empowerment and Justice (DEJ) deals with those
segments which may empower a person and build his/her capacity.
These segments are Human Rights, Children’s rights, Gender
Justice and Gender Budgeting, Rights of STs, SCs, and OBCs,
Consumers’ Rights, Constitutional Justice and Rights, Right to
Information and Public Interest Litigation.
To
achieve its goal, the Department uses various strategies, such
as, training programmes for the target groups either within the
campus or at the places of the target groups (Mobile trainings).
The Department also conducts survey and research in the 9 fields
that are enumerated above. It has plans to disseminate the ideas
of empowerment and justice through publications. Its another
strategy is to conduct Seminars, Workshops etc. which give the
required forum to put forward ideas across and to gather the
ideas of others at the national and international levels.
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