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revolutionary ‘Super-30’ concept for training poor students to crack the IIT selection process wants his model to be replicated in other streams of education.

Bihar’s Super-30 group was started in 2002, wherein 30 “potential” students from economically weaker backgrounds were chosen and trained for the IIT selection process. The concept has produced over 100 IITians so far.

Mathematics scholar Anand Kumar, the brain behind the concept, now wants his highly successful experiment to be replicated in other streams of education and says he is ready to help interested people in bringing this about.

“I believe such a model should be extended to prepare poor children for entering administrative services and for cracking the mathematics and physics Olympiads and even for journalism,” Kumar said.

“I am ready to offer my expertise to help people who are interested in taking the model to other areas,” he said.

Kumar is also expanding the net of reach of his group to other states such as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and will triple the intake for his programme to induct 90 students for the batch that starts this year. “We have ventured out of Bihar and Jharkhand this year to pick brilliant, but underprivileged children from other states of the Hindi-speaking belt,” Kumar said.

The Super-30 programme based in Patna runs under the banner of Ramanujam School of Mathematics and provides free coaching and lodging.