IIT AND KOTA

Super 30, led by mathematician Anand Kumar has again excelled in IIT-JEE Advance result which was declared on Thursday with 27 out of its 30 students clearing the prestigious test. Another set of candidates led by Bihar DGP Abhayanand, who supports nine Super 30 centres across several states, too had a superlative performance with 102 out of 344 students acing the examination. Both Anand and Abhayanand have taken their Super 30s out of Bihar to reach out to the talents from Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Assam and a few other states. Anand’s current batch of 27 successful candidates include 11 from UP and one each from Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. Abhayanand, who guides two Super 30 centres in Bihar, three in Assam and one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and New Delhi, managed a cumulative list of 102 successful candidates. Rahmani Super 30 of Patna and Magadh Super 30 of Gaya have eight and nine successful students respectively. Gai...

IIT-JEE should be made more inclusive by providing adequate opportunities to talented students from underprivileged families residing in rural areas, Super 30 founder and mathematician Anand Kumar said here.  "As the students from poor families in rural areas start off with serious disadvantages, they need an additional chance. They don't lack talent, but do lack opportunities. Education means empowerment and it has to be non-discriminatory," Kumar said while speaking at the two-day  entrepreneur summit organised at IIT Bombay recently.  He said considering the "harsh ground realities", the JEE Board should give its policy a "relook" and not to make 20 rpt 20 percentile a deciding factor for the eligibility.  "Today, there is greater dependence on coaching, contrary to what was expected, as students go for it at every level," Kumar said.  Stressing the need to inculcate values among the students passing out from an institution like IIT, ...