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Super 30

Super 30 is associate Indian program started in Patna, Bharat beneath the banner of Ramanujan faculty of arithmetic. it absolutely was supported by Anand Kumar, a teacher, and Abhayanand, the previous D.G.P of Bihar.The program selects thirty proficient candidates every year from economically underprivileged  sections of Indian society and trains them for the JEE. The program is delineate within the 2019 film, Super 30, stellar Hrithik Roshan as Kumar. Kumar, and his faculty, are the topic of many smear campaigns, a number of that are carried in Indian media sources.

• Super 30

Super thirty category of 2006

• Location

Patna, Bihar

India

• Information

• Type

Institute

• Established

2002 (18 years ago)

• Principal

Anand Kumar

• Enrollment

30 students

• Campus sort

Education

• Team name

Super 30

• Website

www.super30.org

History

In 2002, Abhayanand and Anand Kumar started Super thirty with the attempt to choose thirty proficient students from economically impoverished sections United Nations agency couldn't afford IIT work. These thirty students were then ready to pass IIT-JEE examinations. Anand Kumar's mother, Jayanti Hindu deity, volunteered to cook for the scholars whereas Anand Kumar, Abhayanand, and different academics schooled them.the scholars were conjointly provided study materials and lodging for a year freed from value.

In the 1st year of the work, eighteen out of thirty students created it to IIT. the subsequent year, application numbers soared because of the recognition of the program and written examination was conducted to pick thirty students. In 2004, twenty two out of thirty students qualified for IIT-JEE, increasing the recognition of the program that attracted even additional applications.

In 2005, twenty six out of thirty students cleared the IIT-JEE communication, whereas twenty eight in 2006 - this despite the actual fact that IIT modified the examination structure. In appreciation of their efforts, province Chief Minister at the time Nitish Kumar congratulated the scholars with a money prize of ₹50,000 each.

The following year twenty eight additional students cleared the IIT-JEE, and in 2008, all of the Super thirty students cleared the IIT-JEE, when that Abhayanand quit Super thirty oral communication "the experiment is over." a number of Kumar's former students joined as Super thirty academics and in 2009 and 2010 all thirty students once more qualified the IIT JEE exams. In resultant years the success rates from the thirty students were: 2011 (24 passed), 2012 (27 passed), 2013 (28 passed), 2014 (27 passed), 2015 (25 passed), and in 2016 (28 passed). In 2017, all Super thirty candidates created it to the IIT-JEE. In 2018, twenty six of the thirty students cleared the communication.

Awards and recognition

Time Magazine enclosed Super thirty in its list of the most effective of Asia 2010. The organization conjointly received praise from United States of America President Barack Obama's special envoy Rashad Hussain, United Nations agency termed it the "best" institute within the country.Newsweek Magazine enclosed Super thirty in its list of 4 Most Innovative colleges within the World.Anand Kumar was awarded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Shiksha Puraskar in November 2010, the best award given by the province regime within the field of education.

Smear campaigns

On July 23, 2018, a piece in Dainik Jagran cited former Super thirty students United Nations agency same that solely 3 students from the program had passed the IIT JEE communication that year, contrary to Kumar's claim that twenty six had passed. The report conjointly claimed that students United Nations agency sought-after to recruit in Super thirty were pushed to recruit in another work center known as Ramanujan Institute of arithmetic, a for-profit work institute, on the pretext that Kumar would coach them if they performed well. what is more, the article alleged that by asking IIT aspirants to recruit in Ramanuj Institute, Kumar revamped revamped annually.

Former Deputy Chief Minister of province and Current Leader of the Opposition within the province Assembly Tejashwi Yadav spoke in favor of Anand Kumar and same that "propaganda is being run in media influenced by social system mind-set to discredit and slander Anand Kumar." Former Union cupboard Minister Shatrughan Sinha has conjointly spoken in Kumar's favor on Twitter. In August 2018, The Hindu rumored that Kumar and his faculty area unit oft the main target of faked smear campaigns, and known the potential sources of the made-up stories that appeared within the Dainik Jagran newspaper in Gregorian calendar month.

Film

Bollywood director Vikas Bahl cast Hrithik Roshan for his film Super 30, which is based on the life and works of Anand Kumar

.It theatrically released in India on 12 July 2019 to mixed reviews.