PATNA: Famous as maths wizard Anand Kumar who once sold ‘papad’ on the streets to eke out a living is a happy man today with all the 30 aspirants of IIT-JEE from his coaching institute, Super 30, making it to premier IITs.
Kumar, who runs the coaching institute with Additional Director General of Police Abhayanand, set it up in 2003 for providing free coaching and boarding to students from economically weak backgrounds.
The number of students from the institute who made it to the IIT rose from 18 in 2003 to 22 in 2004, 26 in 2005, 28 each in 2006 and 2007 to 30 aspirants this year.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar congratulated the students of Super 30 and also Sithikant, a student of St Michael’s High School in Patna, who topped the All India Merit List for IIT-JEE this year.

“Bihar is rising and the renaissance has begun. Sithikant and students of Super 30, will inspire future aspirants,” Kumar said in his message.
Anand’s house at Kathpulwa on the outskirts of the state capital wore a festive look with parents of children who cracked the IIT JEE distributed sweets to everyone in the area.
ADGP Abhayanand who teaches physics at the institute told PTI, “We shortlisted some 30 students and coached them for the All India Engineer Entrance Examination (AIEEE) and all of them made to the IIT list. We will increase the number of AIEEE students from the next batch”.

All the thirty students enrolled in Super 30, an innovative coaching institute in Bihar, have passed the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) this year, the institute announced here Friday.

It is the first time that Super 30 achieved 100 per cent success.

“It is a big day for us. We were waiting for hundred percent result for the last four years. At last we succeeded in our effort to achieve it this year,” Anand Kumar, director of Super 30, said.

He said, “We are really in celebration mood after making it.”
Every year, Super 30 selects a group of 30 IIT aspirants from poor families and provides them with free coaching, food and accommodation.
Bihar’s Additional Director-General of Police Abhyanand, who teaches physics at the institute, said this year Super 30 successful students include students from a minority community for the first time.
Till last year students from backward castes, extreme backward castes and Dalits cracked IIT-JEE through Super 30. “But this year some students of minority community succeeded in IIT-JEE,” said Abhyanand.

He said the success of Super 30 lies in hard work and proper guidance for achieving excellent result.
He said that in 2007, 28 of the students made it through ITT-JEE and two others were selected for preparatory. In 2006 too, 28 students of the Super 30 had made it to the IITs.

“We were sure of positive results as we teach them to eat, sleep, walk and talk only IIT,” reiterated Anand.
Anand, who also runs the Ramanujam School of Mathematics, said Super 30 is supported by the income generated from the mathematics school, which has students who can afford to pay fees.

Super 30 took shape five years ago. Eighteen of its students cracked the IIT-JEE that first year, 2003. The number rose to 22 in 2004 and 26 in 2005.
Last year, Norika Fujiwara, a former Japanese beauty queen and actress, made a documentary film on Super 30 for its innovative and successful attempt to send poor children to India’s top engineering colleges.