"It is again a good news that this year, 24 out of the 30 students made it to the IIT-JEE. In the last three years, all 30 from Super 30 had qualified. This takes the total number of Super 30 students who have qualified for the IIT-JEE in the last nine years to 236," the institute's founder and director Anand Kumar told IANS Wednesday.

He added that the changed pattern of the exam this year could be a reason why his entire batch could not bag the coveted IIT seats.

The successful candidates include the wards of a roadside vendor, mobile mechanic, private marginal farmer, a truck driver and a class four government employee.

"All of them have managed to successfully chase their IIT-JEE dreams at Super 30 with their commitment and hard work," he said.

Super 30 helps economically backward students crack the IIT-JEE, and has received numerous national and international recognitions.

The Time magazine featured it in the list of 'The Best of Asia 2010'.

The magazine noted that about 230,000 students appear for the IIT-JEE every year, but just about 5,000 succeed.

Students from poor families have to pass a competitive test to get into Super 30 and then commit themselves to a year of 16 hours a day study routine. Coaching, food and accommodation is free for the students.

Anand, who was mobbed by his students after the results, said it was an outcome of students' hard work and single-point devotion.

"As a teacher, I am happy for what they have achieved, for it will make a lasting difference to their lives. It underlines the cause Super 30 has been championing for the last nine years. The smiles on their faces give me the biggest award," he added.

"Hard work, proper guidance and supervision are the secrets of our success. We teach students to eat, sleep, walk and talk only IIT," he said.

In 2003, the first year of the institute, 18 students made it to the IITs. The number rose to 22 in 2004 and to 26 in 2005. In 2007 and 2006, 28 students made it through ITT-JEE. In 2008, for the first time 30 students cracked the exam, a feat which was repeated in 2009 and 2010.

Anand said the institute is supported by the income generated from his Ramanujam School of Mathematics, which has students who can afford to pay fees.

The Super 30 was started by Anand along with Bihar's Additional Director General of Police Abhyanand. Three years back, Abhyanand dissociated himself from the institute.

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I do agree Anand Sir should pay special attention to Muslims. However, Parsi and Budhist are another two less fortunate sectionS. In fact, IITs have not seen students from these section since last so many years.

People like Anand Sir should come forward with special plans to have due representation of students from Parsi and Budhist sections of societies in IITs.

SANJAY KUMAR

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Anand kumar has achieved an iconic status as far as his skill in training underprivilaged children to be able to compete in the most hard fought contest.to instil and reinforce this faith that the community reposes in him i would like to put a few questions to him on its behalf. i hope you will convey it to him and request for a response.Needless to say I am lke many other Indians , an admirer of Anand Kumar and would like to see his detractors silenced .

1)Five of the 24 successful candidates have been accounted for- a road side vendor , a marginal farmer etc . They appear to belong to poor families .Who are the other 19? Could it be put on the website with their names parentage and address etc so that the cynics amongst us could be silenced.

2) Anand Kumar also runs the Ramanujam School of mathematics , which also trains students for the IIT examination . How many students were enrolled and how many have cracked the examination . This is in order to silence the widespead griping of his critics that he transfers to the super thirty all those who show the greatest promise during the course of local tests etc.

3) Anand Kumar and all those who claim to outdo each other in terms of getting the largest number of their candidates to the IIT should announce it on thier website or wherever at the beginning of the session itself the details of the children . Otherwise the media should publish thier claims as claims only . Published as news without validation misleads the reading public .

George Jacob

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It is a great success of grass level of youth of Bihar. Today, Mentality of people across the country and the Globe towards Bihar and Bihari is changing. Anand Sir is one of those persons who have changed the wind in favor of Bihar. Anand Sir is truly God figure for those poor people who can’t even imagine to bear the cost of coaching of such type of competitions. It is my personal view that Anand Sir should expand his Super-30 to Super-50 so that more poor students of Bihar may give new height to the pride of Bihar.

Munna Yadav

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Mr. Anand Kumar of super 30 is doing a great job towards Bihar and I think he deserves all the respect and encouragement from every section of society.

However it is sad to see that even a single candidate is not from Muslim minority in the list, might because of lack of awareness among Muslim students or might because of lack of talent among them.

Through your esteemed newspaper, I would like to request to Mr Anand to consider Muslim students as well and encourage them as those are also very unfortunate section which are in mass poverty hence are in need for some supporting hand.

Mohammad Kalam