30 Students Defying Expectation:
Every April, some 230,000 Indians take the intensely competitive entrance exam to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) -- the seven prestigious schools that train India's top-notch engineers and entrepreneurs. Only 5,000 students get in. Most come from the middle-class and prepare for the test through private coaching. But in the past few years, a small group of desperately poor, talented students have made it into the IITs, thanks to the Ramanujan School of Mathematics located in Patna, the capital of Bihar. Anand Kumar,a local mathematician, and Abhayanand, the deputy director general of police and a lover of physics, founded the school in 2003 to help promising locals get ahead in the caste-based society. They scoured Bihar's least privileged communities for 30 bright students to coach, providing free lessons and housing. They call their group the Super 30. This year for the second time in succession, all 30 have made it through. [more]

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Read more about the story behind this remarkable school here. [more]

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On Jun 24, 2009 AK writes:	The story below made me think of this video clip about IIT -- it's not directly related but it's pretty awesome.  I love the bit about the mum staying up with him all night and not even letting him make a cup of tea!
On Jun 24, 2009 Vaidehi writes:	Very inspiring... There might be many such stories at the micro level... they need to be brought onto the surface.. not for mere publicity ... but for spreading the word and inspiring more 'have's' to do something more substantial for 'have-not's' ...
On Jun 28, 2009 Renu writes:	I wish Super 30 infinite no. of  glorious years ahead.
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