Super 30 founder man leaves for Abu Dhabi lecture

PATNA - Anand Kumar, who founded Bihar’s free coaching centre Super 30 and helped many students enter the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), has left India for a talk on inclusive education in Abu Dhabi.

“I am going to deliver a speech on inclusive education in Abu Dhabi,” Anand Kumar told IANS before leaving for Abu Dhabi late Tuesday.

The lecture in Abu Dhabi has been organised by the Institute of Chartered Accounts of India, and Kumar will give the address Thursday. The institute earlier invited former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and former ICICI Bank managing director and CEO K.V. Kamath.

During his visit to Abu Dhabi, Kumar will interact with students and teachers to share his experience of Super 30.

Kumar earlier spoke in Atlanta and San Diego, US, in some programmes organised by the Mathematical Association of America. His speech was well appreciated in IIM-Ahmadabad, and he also addressed the groups of managers of Pizza Hut and KFC.

In the last three years, all 30 students of Super 30 have made it to the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), drawing worldwide attention. Since 2003, more than 200 students have made it to the IITs.

Kumar, who himself missed a chance to study at the Cambridge because he didn’t have enough money, gives full scholarships, including room and travel, to every annual batch of 30 students. They pass a competitive test just to get into Super 30, and then commit themselves to a year of 16-hour study each day.