Keeping its pleasing past performance, Bihar’s Super 30, which ready students from underprivileged families free of cost for IIT joint entrance exam (IIT- JEE), pioneered 27 of its 30 students to crack the coveted examination on Thursday.
The institute known for its innovative coaching, founded by mathematician Anand Kumar 13 years ago, has until now enabled 308 students out of the total 360 to make it to the IITs.
Previous year 28 of its students had cleared the IIT- JEE. The list of candidates who triumphant this year consists of wards of a cobbler, daily wage labourers, a landless farmer, vendors, an auto- rickshaw driver and an unemployed man.
Sudhir Kumar is one among them, whose father ekes out a living by shining shoes in Bihar sharif.
He too used to help his father in his job and shared a memory, said Sudhir.
“One day, I polished shoes of a man and when I asked for money, he abused me and walked away. I was seething with anger, but my father told me to calm down and said that the best way to take revenge was to acquire real power through education.”
This attack on dignity became a motivating factor for Sudhir. He sewed shoes but lace dreams of becoming an engineer at the same time. “I want to work for the poor like Anand Sir after completing my studies,” he added.
One more successful candidate Sanjeet Kumar’s father Ram Bhajan is a daily- wage labourer who runs his family by loading and unloading goods on trucks.
“Even today, my family faces acute hardship and struggles for two square meals,” Sanjeet said, unable to control his emotions.
Hari Mohan Pandey, a resident of Jaint village of Mathura district, said at a number of occasions he did not have money to purchase books because of his family’s economic condition. But that could not demotivate the youngster.
“Soon after completing my studies, I will take up a job to rid my family of the acute financial constraints. My parents have suffered a lot for me,” he said, with tears streaming down his cheeks.
Anand Kumar stated, genuinely speaking all students worked very hard to deserve their success.
Under his coaching programme, which has achieved global acclamation due to its phenomenal success rate over the years, the selected 30 students are kept under his complete guidance.
They stay with him, eat with him study with him; — all free of cost. In the very first year of its inception, 18 of his students had cleared the exam. He has not looked back since then.