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PATNA: Bihar's famous Super-30 achieved a hat-trick with all its 30 students making it to IITs for the third consecutive year in 2010. It was in 2002 that maths wizard Anand Kumar, who could not pursue higher studies in Cambridge University due to poverty, made the Super-30 initiative under which 30 poor students are coached free of cost every year to crack IIT-JEE. Altogether 212 of the 240 Super-30 students have cleared one of India's toughest exams during the last eight years.
Like those it groomed earlier, the Super-30 stars this year too are wards of landless farmers, typists, a domestic help and a grade IV government employee. Of them, 20 are OBCs, one is SC and nine are general. Komal Agrawal, Saurabh Agrawal and Atul Kumar Sinha, the Super-30 toppers, are all OBCs.
"Though I have cleared JEE in my second attempt, my ambition is to eventually join Union civil services," lone SC candidate Anand Kishore said.
A jubilant 'Anand sir', as the Super-30 founder is called by his students and their guardians, was an epitome of modesty. "More than to me, the credit goes to the students who slogged for
16 hours daily for months in the run-up to the all-India exam," he said and reiterated he would increase the intake to 60 for the Super-30 centre from this year onwards.
Amit Kumar and Pravin Kumar, who teach physics and chemistry respectively at the Super-30 centre, were also all praise for the students. "These students come from humble families, but they are sharp and intelligent," Amit said. Pravin added, "I enjoy taking classes for these children for they are very receptive."
Son of poor Bihar farmer cracks IIT-JEE
Patna: The IIT-JEE 2010 results were announced on Wednesday and 30 of those who made it come from Super 30, Patna's well-known IIT coaching centre.
It's a proud moment for Sarvesh Kumar, walking proudly in his house to seek the blessings of his parents. Sarvesh has cracked the IIT-JEE. His family is not very well off, and IIT seemed a distant dream just a couple of years ago. But Sarvesh managed to achieve it thanks to hard work, and his parents' support.
"Our financial condition is not very good. My mother stitches clothes. She does it the entire night so that I can study. My father goes to the village to do farming. Sometimes we do not have enough to eat," says Sarvesh.
"My son worked very hard. We also worked hard. We did not allow his studies to suffer. So I used to stitches cloths so that he could study," says Sarvesh's mother Meera Devi.
Where there's a will, there's a way and if the efforts are aided by expert guidance, success is bound to touch one's feet.
No one would understand it better than Sarvesh, the son of a small time farmer, whose father slogged out in fields and mother on a sewing machine to help their son realise his dreams.
Sound of the sewing machine never really disturbed his study, it rather gave him more conviction to achieve his target.
Living in a two-room house, at times helping his mother with her customers, and cycling 15 kms everyday to his coaching centre, Sarvesh never gave up on his dream. His coaching fees were waived off by his institute. But his parents' are worried how they will pay the hefty tuition fees at IIT, with their meager income.
"We are planning to take loan," says his father Sriram Singh.
The zeal to crack IIT-JEE reflects in overall results this year. Over 800 students have cracked IIT-JEE 2010 from Bihar alone. As the momentum picks up in rural Bihar, it would push more Sarveshs on the success path.
Like those it groomed earlier, the Super-30 stars this year too are wards of landless farmers, typists, a domestic help and a grade IV government employee. Of them, 20 are OBCs, one is SC and nine are general. Komal Agrawal, Saurabh Agrawal and Atul Kumar Sinha, the Super-30 toppers, are all OBCs.
"Though I have cleared JEE in my second attempt, my ambition is to eventually join Union civil services," lone SC candidate Anand Kishore said.
A jubilant 'Anand sir', as the Super-30 founder is called by his students and their guardians, was an epitome of modesty. "More than to me, the credit goes to the students who slogged for
16 hours daily for months in the run-up to the all-India exam," he said and reiterated he would increase the intake to 60 for the Super-30 centre from this year onwards.
Amit Kumar and Pravin Kumar, who teach physics and chemistry respectively at the Super-30 centre, were also all praise for the students. "These students come from humble families, but they are sharp and intelligent," Amit said. Pravin added, "I enjoy taking classes for these children for they are very receptive."
Son of poor Bihar farmer cracks IIT-JEE
Patna: The IIT-JEE 2010 results were announced on Wednesday and 30 of those who made it come from Super 30, Patna's well-known IIT coaching centre.
It's a proud moment for Sarvesh Kumar, walking proudly in his house to seek the blessings of his parents. Sarvesh has cracked the IIT-JEE. His family is not very well off, and IIT seemed a distant dream just a couple of years ago. But Sarvesh managed to achieve it thanks to hard work, and his parents' support.
"Our financial condition is not very good. My mother stitches clothes. She does it the entire night so that I can study. My father goes to the village to do farming. Sometimes we do not have enough to eat," says Sarvesh.
"My son worked very hard. We also worked hard. We did not allow his studies to suffer. So I used to stitches cloths so that he could study," says Sarvesh's mother Meera Devi.
Where there's a will, there's a way and if the efforts are aided by expert guidance, success is bound to touch one's feet.
No one would understand it better than Sarvesh, the son of a small time farmer, whose father slogged out in fields and mother on a sewing machine to help their son realise his dreams.
Sound of the sewing machine never really disturbed his study, it rather gave him more conviction to achieve his target.
Living in a two-room house, at times helping his mother with her customers, and cycling 15 kms everyday to his coaching centre, Sarvesh never gave up on his dream. His coaching fees were waived off by his institute. But his parents' are worried how they will pay the hefty tuition fees at IIT, with their meager income.
"We are planning to take loan," says his father Sriram Singh.
The zeal to crack IIT-JEE reflects in overall results this year. Over 800 students have cracked IIT-JEE 2010 from Bihar alone. As the momentum picks up in rural Bihar, it would push more Sarveshs on the success path.