About Anand Kumar:
Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematician and a columnist for various national and international mathematical journals and magazines. He was born on 1 January 1973. He Started the Super 30 programme in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches economically backward students for IIT-JEE. By his effort in 2013, 281 of the 330 got admissions in IITs
His Teaching Career:
Anand Kumar began teaching Mathematics in 1992 and started his own institute Ramanujan School of Mathematics (RSM). After 3 years there were almost 500 students enrolled in Ramanujan School of Mathematics (RSM). Then in the year 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.
From 2002, the Ramanujan School of Mathematics conducts a competitive test to select 30 students for the ‘Super 30’ scheme in the month of May of Every year. 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. During 2003-2013, 281 students out of 330 have made it to the IITs.
Recognition
Discovery Channel broadcast a one-hour-long programme on Super 30 in the year March 2009. Anand Kumar was selected by Europe's magazine Focus as "one of the global personalities who have the ability to shape exceptionally talented people." in the year April 2011.