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Super-30 head wants to reciprocate concept in other streams
New Delhi, July 7 (PTI) After achieving 100 per cent success for two consecutive years, the founder of the revolutionary Super-30 concept for training poor students to crack the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) selection process, wants his model to be replicated in other streams of education.
Started seven years back, Bihars Super-30 group, wherein 30 potential students from economically weaker backgrounds are chosen and trained for the IIT selection process, 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 told PTI.
I am ready to offer my expertise to help people who are interested in taking the model to other areas, he said.
The last two years have produced 100 per cent results, with all 30 of its students drawn from the remote areas of Indias eastern states of Bihar and Jharkhand, making ...