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Super 30
founder to share dais with Blair, others
Friday March 25, 2011 03:41:58 PM,
IANS
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Patna: Anand Kumar,
the founder of Bihar's famous Super 30 coaching centre, will share
the dais with former British prime minister Tony Blair, Nobel
winner Albert Fert and other global greats at a conference in the
UAE next week.
"I will share the platform with Tony Blair, Albert Fert, Irina
Bokova, Raila Odinga and others in the last week of March in the
United Arab Emirates (UAE)," Kumar told IANS Friday.
He has been invited by the UAE's Higher Colleges of Technology,
which is organising the mega conference of students, Education
Without Borders, March 28-31.
The event will feature a host of dignitaries and 3,700 student
delegates from 129 countries. Besides Kumar, Blair and physicist
Fert, Unesco head Irina Bokova and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila
Odinga are among the other speakers.
Kumar will speak on his experiences and how education could be the
biggest tool for social change. His Super 30 has helped many
students from underprivileged sections of society enter the
prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
"I am happy that people want to listen to me for inspiration. I
will keep trying to do something in future that would inspire
people to do better," he added.
Kumar, who started the Ramanujam School of Mathematics in 1992,
founded the Super 30 in 2002.
In the last eight years, the novel initiative has helped 212
students clear the IIT entrance test. During the last three years,
all the 30 students of the institute made it to the IITs, drawing
worldwide attention.
Most of the successful candidates have come from the most
underprivileged sections of society. They are provided free food,
lodging and free coaching.
The students have to pass a competitive test to get into Super 30
and then commit themselves to a year of 16-hour study each day,
Kumar said.
Last year Anand shared his experience with Hollywood producer and
director James Cameron at a conference in the township of Lavasa
in Maharashtra.
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