As many as 26 of the 30 students trained by famed coaching institute Super 30 have cleared the JEE-Advanced 2018 for admission to India’s premiere IITs, its founder Anand Kumar said on Sunday.
Onirjit Goswami, Suraj Kumar, Yash Kumar and Prashant Das — all from extremely modest backgrounds — are among those who have cleared the test.
Onirjit, son of Devkumar Goswami, who works in a small factory in Kanpur, says due to financial hardships, he could not even think of IITs. One day he read an article about Super 30 in a newspaper and reached Anand Kumar’s house. That was the beginning, and he went on to realise his dream.
Suraj Kumar’s parents are uneducated, but they are overwhelmed with the success of their son. His father is a landless farmer.
A resident of Giridih in Jharkhand, Suraj says: “When I told my father this morning that I had qualified for IIT, my father kept saying ITI. He did not even know what I was preparing for.”
Read more of this in a report by Arun Kumar published in Hindustan Times....
It may be mentioned that Super 30 was started by Anand Kumar in 2002 for coaching underprivileged children to get into the prestigious IIT. A total of 422 students out of 480 from Super-30 coaching institute have qualified in IIT-JEE since it was started.
