Bihar’s Super 30 adds 27 more stars to IITs
When Diwakar Kumar’s father, a poor truck mechanic in Munger in Bihar, first knew of the difference between IIT and ITI and tried not to use the two interchangeably while speaking, he thought his son could never make it to the hallowed IITs. But the dreams of the father and the son came true on Friday.
With the free coaching he got at the Super 30 institute for underprivileged students in Patna, Mr Kumar cracked the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) 2012. There was raucous celebration at the renowned institute in the Bihar capital’s grubby Mithapur area soon after results came out on Friday morning as 27 out of its 30 students had cracked the tough competitive entrance examination, bringing glory to its founder and educationist Anand Kumar for the 10th consecutive year.
“My father did not believe it for a moment that I was selected to study at one of the IITs. But he was overjoyed to learn of my success and instantly spoke his blessings for Anand sir,” said Diwakar. “Without Super 30, our IIT dreams would have remained just dreams due to my family’s poverty,” said the teenager.
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Kandhamal shopkeeper’s son qualifies
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
Bhubaneswar, May 18
Eighteeen-year-old Rakesh Nayak, the son of a small-time shopkeeper of Sarangagada village in Kandhamal district, felt quite ecstatic when chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday patted him on the back congratulating him for securing 154th rank in the all-India merit list of the IIT-JEE.
“It’s a dream come true. I did not expect I would ever be felicitated by the chief minister. Although I expected to figure among the top 500, I did not hope to secure 154th rank. It really feels extremely good,” Rakesh said.
The boy also stood 18th in the list of Other Backward Class category students.
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