Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Super 30

An IIT coaching institute, which claimed to teach 30 students drawn from the underprivileged class for IIT examination, has shut shop following controversy over three successful IIT aspirants being claimed by more than one coaching institute as their students.Super 30, the brainchild of mathematician Anand Kumar and an IPS officer Abhayanand, was shut when I-desire and Genius-40, two coaching institutes of Patna, claimed that three students of Super-30 were trained by them.Students of Super 30 held a protest march in New Delhi demanding a reconsideration of the institute's decision.Super 30, floated five years ago, provided free lodge and boarding besides coaching for the IITs to 30 poor students selected after a test.

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