Scholarship at Super-30
- An Awakening in Bihar -
This is a story of two dedicated person: Anand Kumar and Abhayanand who help a small group of desperately poor, talented students
to push them into IITs.
Super-30, since its formation in 2002 by Abhayanand and Anand Kumar with the goal to prepare 30 students with limited economic means
and opportunities in Bihar, had been consistently sending students to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) with
its highly-specialized, focused training structure.
This pious concept Super-30: pick out poor but talented students, those who could not afford the luxury of coaching for JEE, and give
them the last push that would send them into the IITs.
The gameplan is very simple:
-> Select 30 most talented but economically very very poor students through a selection test.
-> Train them for 8 months free of cost including fooding, lodging.
Anand kumar who is a maths wizard could not be able to pursue his further studies because of early death of his father. In his early
days, he used to sell Papad for a living but now together with Abhayanand an IPS officer, teach a selected poor, unprivileged but
talented kids from rural caste ridden Bihar to chase the IIT dream.
They help the poor kids to chase their wildest dreams, give wings to fly and let them soar high.
Road map to IITs:
-> 2003, 18 of 30 students have cleared IIT-JEE.
-> 2004, 22
-> 2005, 26
-> 2006, 28
-> 2007, 28
But this year, the success rate is 100%
-> 2008, Super 30 have reach their zenith. They all have cracked IIT-JEE.
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The son of a brick kiln worker, rickshaw puller, roadside vendor, a watch-maker, a three-wheeler driver and the likes are finding their way into IITs.
Yet they do ask for a guru-dakhsina from students. Give back to society what you have got, if not more.
In this fast world where people don't have time to smile at a stranger, these two warriors have shown what life is all about.
" FROM WHAT WE GET, WE CAN MAKE A LIVING; WHAT WE GIVE, HOWEVER MAKES A LIFE. "
Lets sail along with this wind of changes in our land of birth Manipur.
Link to super 30: http://www.super30.org/index.html
This Education announcement was furnished by Thounaojam Umeshkanta Singh - thouna(dot)moveon(at)gmail(dot)com . This posting was webcasted on June 05, 2008 .
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