Give poor students 3 IIT-JEE chances, says Super 30 founder

PATNA - Super 30, a Bihar-based free coaching centre for the poor, has requested union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal to allow poor students three chances to appear in the highly competitive IIT-JEE, in view of the vast disparity in the quality of education in cities and villages.

Anand Kumar, the founder of Super 30 coaching institute which offers free coaching along with food and accommodation to 30 students from economically backward classes to help them crack the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), met Sibal in New Delhi Wednesday.

In February Kumar met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and requested him to come up with schemes under which coaching could be provided on the lines of Super 30 to shape the careers of poor students.

Kumar also submitted suggestions to Sibal for adoption of best practices for prevention of recurrence of errors and steps required for enhancing transparency in the procedures and processes for the conduct of competitive examinations including the IIT-JEE.

Kumar also made various other suggestions to Sibal.

The Super 30 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 told Sibal of his efforts at empowerment of the underprivileged section by sending 212 poor students to the IITs in the last eight years.