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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Bihar's Super 30 gets International Recognition

Bihar’s Super 30 has added another laurel to its credit. Recently Super 30 was featured by Time magazine in the list of the "Best of Asia 2010", now Newsweek in its latest edition included Super 30 in the li st of four most innovative schools in the world.

Newsweek quotes "For years now the path to the top in India has funneled through the highly competitive entrance exam for the precious few places in the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). For the privileged, the test is tough; for the disadvantaged, it can be crippling. But thanks to an innovative training program created by 37-year-old math whiz Anand Kumar, smart but underprivileged kids in the impoverished state of Bihar are winning acceptance to IITs at an unprecedented rate. Each year Kumar selects 30 deserving students—including Dalits, or the so-called Untouchables—and houses, feeds, and trains them vigorously, all for free.

This was the third consecutive year that all 30 of his students got into the IITs—a fraction of the 10,000 students selected from the 472,000 who applied. Since its inception in 2002, “Super 30,” as the program is called, has sent 212 of its 240 graduates to five-year science and engineering courses at the IITs. Some are already in high-paying jobs in various industries both in India and abroad.

Monday, August 04, 2008

The Super 30 saga

Recently a three part series on Super 30 success story was shown on the Al Jazeera channel. The film covers the journey of the super 30 students success saga and the way they take part in an intensive educational programme to gain entry into the country's top educational institution.

Labels: Bihar 2.0, Bihari Newsmakers, Bihari Talent, Brand Bihar, Super 30, Super 30 Video

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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Bihari Talents shine again

Past few weeks have been really encouraging to see the way Bihari students have charted new success stories and this will definitely inspire and set examples for many aspiring ones.

It was hearting to see once again a Bihari talent securing the top notch rank in the IIT-JEE merit list. This article aptly titled” Bihar scripts name in golden letters in IIT” goes a long way in re establishing the brand Bihar and its inherent uniqueness which few recognize otherwise. Shashikanth the lad from Patna marked the Bihari No 1 stamp by securing the 1st rank in the IIT-JEE merit list. His success and humility is very reassuring as Biharis over the year have been cracking one of the world’s most competitive exams with ease.

He said he was sure to be figured out in top 10, but never thought of achieving first position. “It was all of the blessings of his parents, elders, friends and most of all his teachers and his restless hard work,” he said.A brilliant student has always been fond of Physics and Mathematics as well and can spend all the time with studying physics. “I never get bore of studying physics,” he said. The same is with maths, he added.

While Shashikant made it all alone, his friends from Super 30 were not lagging behind. It was a perfect 100% for this super bunch of jubilant students when they cracked the entrance test with ease. Anand Kumar and his team have just made it a habit of ensuring success for these super heroes. Their resounding and repeated proven success exemplifies how merit and diligence always pays. This year students of Super 30 truly represent the social fabric of India, students from very backward and minority communities have also been part of the successful batch this year.

Till last year students from backward castes, extreme backward castes and Dalits cracked IIT-JEE through Super 30. "But this year some students of minority community succeeded in IIT-JEE," said Abhyanand. He said the success of Super 30 lies in hard work and proper guidance for achieving excellent result. He said that in 2007, 28 of the students made it through ITT-JEE and two others were selected for preparatory. In 2006 too, 28 students of the Super 30 had made it to the IITs. "We were sure of positive results as we teach them to eat, sleep, walk and talk only IIT," reiterated Anand.

Anand, who also runs the Ramanujam School of Mathematics, said Super 30 is supported by the income generated from the mathematics school, which has students who can afford to pay fees. Super 30 took shape five years ago. Eighteen of its students cracked the IIT-JEE that first year, 2003. The number rose to 22 in 2004 and 26 in 2005.

IIT is not the end of the story ,Bihari lads have also come out with flying colours in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) results announced recently. The story of the two clerks from Bihar who finally made it to the top ranks in IAS is truly amazing. Keshbendra Kumar sold tickets at West Bengal's Seuri railway station. He is ranked 45th in the IAS results. Ravi Kant sold tickets at Ukhra railway station in Burdwan district. He is ranked 77th in the list of successful candidates.

The two clerks-turned-bureaucrats have lots in common. Both are from Bihar. Kumar and Kant arrived in Bengal for their Higher Secondary education after passing out of schools in Bihar's Aara and Sitamarhi distrits respectively. Both enrolled at Barrackpore's Bholanand School.Both graduated from the Indira Gandhi Open University. While Kumar did History (Honours), Kant did Hindi (Honours). Both found jobs as railways booking clerks — without paying bribes! Subsequently, they also made it to the defence forces but preferred their railway jobs.

Neither of them could afford civil service coaching centres. Their homes do not have television sets. All they could afford was a newspaper and couple of magazines to keep track of India and the world. Kumar says that he couldn't even afford a wrist watch. “I wrote my IAS exams without a watch.“I would have fared better if had a watch for time management in the examination centre”, Kumar said.

Kudos to the achievements of these young talent from Bihar and we surely wish many more get inspired by the success of these students and chart out new stories of diligence, perseverance and merit.

Labels: Abhyanand, Anand Kumar, Bihar 2.0, Bihari Talent, Brand Bihar, Education in Bihar, IAS, IIT Patna, IIT-JEE, IIT-JEE Topper, Super 30

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Saturday, January 12, 2008

Vote for our Super Heroes

Dr Abhyanand and Anand Kumar have been nominated for CNN IBN Indian of year in the Public Service category for providing free coaching, boarding and lodging to 30 poor students for the IIT JEE Exams every year. For achieving successful scores for 28 out of the 30 students this year.

Please cast your vote for them and recognize their efforts to realize the dreams of the meritorious but under privileged students from Bihar.

Labels: Bihari Newsmakers, Bihari Talent, Indian of the Year, Super 30

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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Bihari Students Shine high

Bihar students continue to make the state proud by coming out with flying clouds in National level competitions and Board exams. Manish Kumar, a student of Gyan Niketan school in Patna, has topped the CBSE Class X 2007 examination securing an aggregate of 99.4 per cent marks.The Bihar boy missed the 100 per cent by just three marks securing 497 out of a maximum possible 500 marks.

"Our students Manish Kumar and Prashant Suman secured 99.4 per cent and 98.4 per cent marks respectively," vice-principal of Gyan Niketan Archana Sharan said. Manish, who broke the 99 per cent benchmark set by two girls from the southern region - Jahnvi Dhar and Aparna Murlidhar - wants to join one of the Indian Institute of Technology after completing his class XII.His father Sanjay Kumar is the Director of Accounts, Postal Services and mother Sunita Kumari is a housewife.

“Manish earned praises from all his teachers for the brilliant manner in which he absorbed bare essentials of each subject. We were confident Manish will secure excellent mark in CBSE examination,” principal of Gyan Niketan DK Mukherjee said.

If this was not enough our boys have also secured good rank in the IIT-JEE entrance exam. It’s expected that almost 200 students from Patna alone have secured ranks in the country most prestigious exam.Students from the Super 30 batch have also kept the flag flying high and 28 out of 30 students have made it once again.

Kudos to all of them for the excellent show…keep it up folks,we are all proud of you. You all represent the future of Bihar and I’m sure we are now witnessing new role models for the state.

Labels: Bihari Talent, Board Exam Topper, Education in Bihar, IIT-JEE, Super 30

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