New Delhi, April 6 -- XLRI - Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, the oldest B-school in India has been a pioneer of various educational practices. It has introduced courses such as the first two-year, day program in Industrial Relations and Welfare in 1953, now known as Human Resource Management (HRM) and established XCITE (XLRI Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship), a rural business incubation center, supported by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). It believes in giving the students a ground reality check along with theoritical knowledge. It believes in living the subject rather than just learning it.

The pedagogy at XLRI not only remains stuck to books but students are encouraged to...