DGP Abhayanand with students of his institute in Patna on Friday. Picture by Ranjeet Kumar Dey

Fleet-footed success touched aspiring techies across the state, as the IIT-JEE results were declared on Friday.

While many students from Patna cracked the difficult entrance test to the most prestigious tech cradles of the country, districts, too, were not left far behind. Chhapra, with six students, and Gaya with 26 also made a mark. Success did not differentiate between students from well-off families and those from economically backward homes.

Both chief minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi congratulated the successful students.

“In recent times, a large number of coaching institutes have opened not only in Patna but in district headquarters as well. This has increased the success rate of IIT aspirants,” said Modi. He added that teachers like Anand Kumar and Abhayanand deserve to be congratulated for inspiring the students of the state.

Fifty-one students from Abhayanand’s training institute, Super 30, passed the exam. All of them underwent training at any of the six projects under Centre for Social Responsibility & Leadership — a social initiative project of the director general of police (DGP).

Clarifying the confusion over the name of the institute, Abhayanand said: “Super 30 is a concept. It does not mean that only 30 students will be admitted to the institute.”

The senior police officer had conceptualised Super 30 along with mathematician Anand Kumar before the duo parted ways.

Announcing the list of successful candidates from his institute, Abhayanand said: “Out of 88 students whose names were disclosed prior to the examination, 51 students were successful. Of the successful candidates, 23 are from Gail Utkarsh Super 100, Kanpur, 12 from Abhayanand Super 30, Delhi, six from Guwahati Oil India Super 30, seven from Patna Rehmani Super 30 and three from Gaya Magadh Super 30. No student from Jorhat Oil India Super 30 has been successful in cracking IIT-JEE this year.”

Abhayanand also took the opportunity to slam coaching institutes that declared their list of their students a few days before the results.

“Our institute declared the names of probable students on March 24 itself — much before the JEE examination, which was held on April 8. The name of students taking IIT-JEE should be declared before the examination, not a few days before the results. There should be transparency in the process,” he said.

Anand Kumar had declared the names of 30 students from his institute on May 15. The publication of the results sparked a series of claims and counter-claims about good performance by different coaching institutes.

Students who saw their names on the final list, however, were overjoyed. FIITJEE, Patna student Sujay Choubey was one of the lucky ones to have made it to the prestigious engineering institute. He said: “There are no short cuts to success in IIT-JEE.”