ACTUAL STORY BEHIND THE SUPER 30 MOVIE :
INTRODUCTION:
Anand Kumar (born 1 January 1973) is an Indian educationalist and a mathematician best known for his Super 30 program, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches underprivileged students for IIT-JEE, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). By 2018, 422 out of the 480 had made it to the IITs and Discovery Channel showcased his work in a documentary. His life and work are portrayed in the 2019 film, Super 30, where Kumar is played by Hrithik Roshan. Kumar has spoken at MIT and Harvard about his programs for students from the underprivileged sections of Indian society. Kumar and his school have been the subject of several smear campaigns, some of which have been carried in Indian media sources.
Early life:
Anand Kumar was born in Patna, Bihar, India. His father was a clerk in the postal department of India. His father could not afford private schooling for his children, and Anand attended a Hindi medium government school, where he developed his deep interest in mathematics. In childhood, he studied in Patna High School Patna, Bihar. During graduation, Kumar submitted papers on number theory, which were published in Mathematical Spectrum and The Mathematical Gazette.
Kumar secured admission to Cambridge University, but could not attend because of his father's death and his financial condition, even after looking for a sponsor in 1994-1995, both in Patna and Delhi
Kumar would work on mathematics during day time and sell papads in evenings with his mother, who had started a business from home, to support her family. Kumar tutored students to earn extra funds. Since Patna University library did not have foreign journals, Kumar would travel every weekend on a six-hour train journey to Varanasi, where his younger brother, learning violin under N. Rajam, had a hostel room, so that he could work there.
Teaching career and Super 30:
In 1992, Kumar began teaching mathematics He rented a classroom for Rs. 500 a month, and began his own institute, the Ramanujan School of Mathematics (RSM).Within the span of year, his class grew from two students to thirty-six, and after three years there were almost 500 students enrolled. Then in early 2000, when a poor student came to him seeking coaching for IIT-JEE, who couldn't afford the annual admission fee due to poverty, Kumar was motivated to start the Super 30 programme in 2002, for which he is now well-known.
Every May, since 2002, the Ramanujan School of Mathematics holds a competitive test to select 30 students for the Super 30 program. Many students appear at the test, and eventually, he takes thirty intelligent students from economically backward sections, tutors them, and provides study materials and lodging for a year. He prepares them for the Joint Entrance Examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). His mother, Jayanti Devi, cooks for the students, and his brother Pranav Kumar takes care of the management.
During 2003-2017, 391 students out of 450 passed the IITs. In 2010, all the students of Super 30 cleared IIT JEE entrance making it a three in a row for the institution. Kumar has no financial support for Super 30 from any government as well as private agencies and manages on the tuition fee he earns from the Ramanujan Institute. After the success of Super 30 and its growing popularity, he received offers from the private sector - both national and international companies - as well as the government for financial help, but he has refused it; Kumar wanted to sustain Super 30 through his own efforts.
From 2008–2010, 30 out of 30 students cleared the IIT-JEE. In subsequent years the pass rates from the 30 students were: 2011 (24 passed), 2012 (27 passed), 2013 (28 passed), 2014 (27 passed), 2015 (25 passed), in 2016 (28 passed), in 2017 (30 passed), and in 2018 (26 passed) the prestigious IIT-JEE examination.
ACTUAL PICTURE OF TEACHER BEHIND SUPER 30 SUPER 30 WEBSITE: www.super30.org/
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