No Chance of Resuscitating Super-30; Say its Founders
Patna: June 3, 2007
The two founder-fathers of world-famed Super-30, the preparatory ground for many young IIT-aspirants with limited economic means in Bihar, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Abhayanand and mathematician Anand Kumar, a day after shutting down the doors of the institute for good, turned down requests for its reopening saying the latest experience had left them with a sense of disillusionment that would take time to overcome.
"While we respect the outpour of requests from hundreds of parents and students of Patna to reconsider our decision of shutting down the coaching institute, what had transpired in last couple of days has left us with no choice but to call it quits," Abhayanand said saying they had no intention of keeping the door opened.
"Due to some 'criminal elements' in the education world in Bihar, our image has been sullied and we cannot carry on under these circumstances," Anand Kumar told the media on Sunday.
Kumar admitted that though some of the students in the controversy had apologized for their callous acts, the bitter experience had left them with a shaken trust in the humanity leading to the extreme decision to shut down the institute.
The ADGP said that the institute had reexamined the documents of the three candidates in the midst of this controversy, Pranav Prince, Gaurav, and Abhishek, and each one of them had declared that they were not taking coaching in other institutes.
As reported, the three youths are part of the 28 students group coached by the Super-30 that successfully competed in the latest entrance tests for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
However, after the end of the initial euphoria, the three students declared that they were coached under a different coaching institute in Patna thus taking the credit away from the Super-30.
Super-30 was started by Abhayanand and Anand Kumar in 2002 with the goal to coach 30 Bihar students with limited economic means for admission in the prestigious.
Its success had been stellar and rising.
In 2003, 18 of the 30 selected students were admitted in the IIT, in 2004 that number rose to 22, 26 in 2005, and 28 in 2006 and 2007.
A Japanese film-maker even made a documentary on the institute praising its founders for their selfless work for those who otherwise had no hope to find entry in IIT.
Meanwhile, leaders from various parties have asked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to intervene in the matter and take measures to root out what they describe as 'coaching institute mafia' in Bihar.
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