IANS/Patna

As many as 25 of the 30 students of Bihar’s Super 30, a free coaching centre for underprivileged students, have cracked the highly competitive entrance test for admission to Indian Institutes of Technology this year, its director said yesterday.
“We are happy that this year, 25 of our 30 students have made it through the IIT-JEE (Joint Entrance Examination). The credit goes to the hardworking students and our teachers,” Super 30’s founder-director Anand Kumar said here.
“All of them have succeeded in fulfilling their IIT-JEE dreams at Super 30 with dedication and hard work,” he said.
This year’s IIT-JEE result has once again underlined the fact that, with proper opportunity, even students from poor families can reach the prestigious IITs, the institute director added.
The father of one of the successful candidates, Neeraj Jha, is a taxi driver in Kolkata.
“I have realised my dream by making it to the ITT. I will perform well in studies to get a good job and lift my family out of poverty,” Neeraj, who secured the 1,217th rank in ITT-JEE, said.
“Everyone is in a celebratory mood. We distributed lots of sweets,” said a visibly happy Rahul Kumar, who cracked the test.
His father works as a mason in Hazaribagh in neighbouring Jharkhand.
The institute selects talented students from poor families and provides them free coaching, food and accommodation so that they focus only on cracking the IIT-JEE.
“Hard work, proper guidance and supervision are the secrets of our success,” Anand Kumar said.
Brajesh Kumar Saroj, another Super 30 student who secured the 410th rank, said the facilities provided at the institute and encouragement from the faculty made it possible for him to crack the tough exam.
Brajesh’s father works in Surat in Gujarat. Similarly, Dhanajay Kumar, who secured the 457th rank, said his father was also a migrant labourer.
“We were sure of positive results as we teach them to eat, sleep, walk and talk only IIT,” said Anand Kumar.
He said the institute is supported by income generated from his Ramanujam School of Mathematics, which has students who can afford to pay fees.
Super 30 was started by Anand Kumar along with former Bihar director general of police Abhyanand over a decade ago. Later, Abhyanand dissociated himself from the institute.