Anand Kumar, who is the director of the institute, says, "This year, 28 students cracked the IIT test and two others were selected for preparatory. It is like 100 per cent result."
Additional director general of police (ADGP), Abhayanand, had conceived Super 30. "Merit, and only merit, is the sole consideration to make it to Super 30. We do not go by caste or economic considerations," he says.
Abhayanand teaches physics free of cost at the institute and according to him, the success lies in hard work and proper guidance.
Kumar, who also runs the Ramanujan School of Mathematics, says Super 30 is supported by the income generated from the mathematics school, which has students from affluent families who can afford to pay to fulfil this "social objective".
Perhaps, the success of Super 30 would serve as a model for other such institutes across India to walk on this truly satisfying path of recognising and promoting merit.
From: Tribune News Service, June-01,2007
