Super 30's Anand Kumar seems to have inspired many because a Noida-based institution has come forward to help underprivileged engineering aspirants.

United College of Engineering & Research, which has branches in Noida and Allahabad, and runs seven engineering courses, has decided to tutor meritorious and economically weak students, free of cost. The chief executive officer (CEO) of the institute, Mona Gulati Puri, was in Patna on Wednesday, to discuss the issue with Super 30 director Anand.

The institute has requested Anand to take up the task of selecting the students, who would be provided with the facility. Puri said: "Anand Kumar will select the students from his institute - Ramanujan School of Mathematics - and other poor students from the state, who will be admitted to our institution."

The recommended students would be those, who failed to clear the entrance exams of premier institutes, such as Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and National Institute of Technology, but aspire to become engineers.

Anand said: "The focus of this initiative is to help those poor students, who want to study engineering, yet have failed to clear the entrances, despite hard work."

Many a times, these students go for private engineering colleges in Bangalore or Delhi. The colleges are expensive and sometimes, the parents of these children sell off their property to sustain the education of their wards, Anand said.

Super 30 has, recently, decided to provide training to toppers of Simultala Awasiya Vidyalaya. In the past, it has mentored more than a hundred students, who have cracked IIT entrances.

Puri's institution, which would establish a tie-up with Super 30, charges about Rs 83,000 a year as tuition fees. The CEO assured that a written agreement would be established between her institution and Super 30 in a few months.

Sources said the idea behind the institution's collaboration with Super 30 was a part of its corporate social responsibility.

It is not for the first time that Super 30 has joined hands with the United Group of Institutions. The group has partnered Anand in his Solve and Win programme, where it provides financial assistance to students in study tours.