Now, Bihar’s Super 30 free coaching model in other states

PATNA - Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh want to emulate Bihar’s popular free coaching centre ‘Super 30′, which has helped students from economically backward classes crack the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), the institute’s director said Monday.

“I have got offers from the governments of Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh for replication of Super 30 model in their states. Punjab government has also announced to adopt Super 30 model,” Anand Kumar, the director-cum-founder of the institute, told IANS over telephone.

Besides free coaching to 30 poor students every year, the Patna-based institute also offers food and accommodation for them.

Kumar said that 50 poor students from the rural areas of Punjab will be provided free coaching to help them crack IIT-JEE.

“It will be started from the academic session 2010-11,” he said.

Kumar is also scheduled to go to Chennai April 20 to discuss the details with the Tamil Nadu government.

In February this year, Kumar, during his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, requested him to come up with schemes under which coaching could be provided on the lines of ‘Super 30′ to shape the career of poor students.

The institute was started by Kumar along with Bihar’s Additional Director-General of Police Abhayanand in 2002 in Patna. But two years ago, Abhayanand dissociated himself from the institute.

Kumar said that Super 30 had sent 182 students to IITs in the last seven years.