Ajit Kumar's gift to his father Naresh Choudhary couldn't have got better.
The 16-year-old boy, the son of a vegetable vendor, has cracked the IIT-Advanced test, the results of which were declared on Sunday. Ajit has secured 2,481 (Scheduled Caste) category rank. It was tough for Naresh to balance his studies and support his father at his vegetable shop simultaneously.
A beaming Ajit said: "As I have a big family of seven members, I had seen my father slog to meet our needs."
Naresh runs a vegetable shop at Masaurhi, and Ajit had to mind the shop on several occasions to support him financially.
Life changed for Ajit after he appeared for his Class XII examination from Dr CP Thakur College, Naubatpur. He came to know about Super 30 and Anand Kumar. In 2015, the boy appeared for the Super 30 entrance test held in Patna. After studying for a year at Super 30 under the guidance of Anand Kumar, Ajit tried his luck at the IIT entrance examination.
The promising teenager has bagged a Scheduled Caste category rank of 2,481, which would enable Ajit to comfortably secure admission in good IIT branches such as IIT-Guwahati or IIT-BHU.
Another Super 30 student, Sushant Kumar Sinha has secured 4,441 in the general category. The son of a security guard working in Daman, Sushant hails from Begusarai. Reacting on his success, he said: "My financial condition of my family is not strong. My parents always remained worried about how to meet the cost of my studies as well as that of my sisters."
However, getting into Super 30, changed Sushant's life. "As Super 30 provides free coaching to students from underprivileged sections of the society, when I joined Super 30 based on the competitive test, half my tension was over. My only worry was to clear the IIT entrance test."
The teenager holds a comfortable rank to get into good engineering branches of any of the IITs across the country. Sushant, after completing his BTech, wants to open a school at his village at Begusarai under which students from economically poor background can be provided free education.
Pushkar Kumar, another Super 30 student, has also cracked the IIT-Advanced test, securing 1,006 (Other Backward Classes) rank. Pushkar, the son of a private school teacher in Patna, wants to become a civil servant.
Pushkar said: "Like many other students coming from low-income group, I too had to face financial difficulties. As my father is a teacher in a private school earning around Rs 15,000 a month, my parents were always worried about my higher education, which is very costly. But after coming to Super 30, half my tension was over and I focused on cracking the test." The boy, after competing his BTech, wants to become a civil servant so that he can serve the society.
Anand Kumar's Super 30 launched in 2002 has till date trained 390 students for engineering entrance test and of them, 333 have cleared the IIT through the Super 30 initiative.
Most students, coming from economically weaker sections, are trained for the IIT entrance test. As the IIT-JEE server was slow, like other students, those at Super 30 too found it tough downloading the results.
"So far, I can confirm that at least 28 out of 30 students of Super 30 have cleared the entrance test this year," said a proud Anand Kumar.
