Successful students celebrate with the Super 30 founder, Anand Kumar, in Patna on Wednesday. Picture by Deepak Kumar

Patna, May 25: Ayush Agarwal, 18, hugged his mother learning that he has made it to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). His mother, Asha, could not hold back her tears. This is a sort of victory for both of them.

“My mother, a homemaker, had to endure much suffering after my father passed away. She started teaching children to support our family that consists of my mother, my sister and me. All her struggles have finally paid off,” said Ayush, whose father passed away two years ago.

Asha said: “My son has made me so proud today. He has always been very good in academics but I could not afford to send him to an expensive training institute.

“Super 30 classes are a boon for us. I am so indebted to Anandji,” said the proud mother.

Asha and Ayush are not the only ones. Twenty-four students of Super 30 have cracked the IIT-JEE this year, the results for which were declared today. All of them are students of government schools and do not have the means to go to expensive coaching institutes. The scenes outside Super 30 founder Anand Kumar’s Jakkanpur home seemed straight out of a Bollywood blockbuster, where the overjoyed youths were celebrating their success.

Vaishali district resident Dharampal Yadav, who ranked 1,307 in the OBC category, said: “My father is a truck driver. He earns Rs 2,000 a month. He has struggled to ensure that my siblings and I get a good education. When I told my father over the phone that I had cleared the IIT entrance examination, he was overwhelmed and cried. He is very happy that I will be the first engineer from our village, that too from an IIT.”

The youth also said: “My father has not been keeping well but he kept working to support the family. I hope to take some of the responsibility soon, and relieve him.”

Students from outside the state, too, have benefited from the facilities at Super 30.

Priyanka Sharma, a resident of Ludhiana in Punjab, is the only girl in the batch. She ranked 5,324 in the entrance exam.

“My father is a mechanic and always wanted me to be an engineer. Today, I fulfilled his dreams,” said the girl, her eyes glittering with happiness.

She added that she was thankful to Super 30 for opening its doors to students outside Bihar. “I am lucky I came here. The rigorous schedule of study, dedication of teachers and the competitive atmosphere has made Super 30 what it is,” said Priyanka.

Uttar Pradesh resident Kunwar Barrister Singh, the son of a marginal farmer, said: “I want to be an IAS officer so that I am in a position to bring change to the lives of people, and in the system. This is only the start of a journey.” He ranked 1,381, the highest in his Super 30 batch.

For most of the successful candidates, the success in IIT-JEE is not the end of the road, just the beginning. They want to make it to the civil services once they complete their BTech courses.