Mumbai: Former CM and Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee President Ashok Chavan was awarded with the Xavier Ratna by the St Xavier’s High School on the commemoration of its 150th anniversary. Adi Godrej, Deepak Parekh, and Sunil Gavaskar were also presented with the Xavier Ratna today.
The Chief Guest for the event was Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao. Introduced as one of the most prominent alumni of the school for being CM, Chavan was lauded for continuously supporting his alma mater after his graduation. Chavan, who passed out of the school in 1975, recalled fond memories of Xavier’s while accepting the award and said that “whatever I am today, I owe to this school.” –