Patna's Super 30 mentor Anand Kumar accused of deceit to gain popularity
Patna, July 24: Founded in 2002, Patna's Super-30 stunned the country in 2008 with 100 per cent success rate at IIT JEE. Though the institute had started to make a mark in 2004, but it was for the first time in 2008 that all 30 students picked up for Super-30 batch qualified IIT JEE. It also made to the Time Magazine in 2010.
Now, its founder mathematician Anand Kumar finds himself embroiled in a major controversy. His students have leveled charges of deceit on him. Anand Kumar's Super-30 provides free coaching to meritorious students coming from economically and backward section of society wishing to make it to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).
Some of these students have alleged that Anand Kumar made a misleading claim this year that 26 out of his 30 students cleared the IIT JEE exam. The students said that only three from Super-30 batch could qualify for IIT JEE.
After the results for this year's IIT JEE (Advance) were announced, Anand Kumar claimed that 26 of Super-30 students cracked the exam. The names of successful candidates as claimed included Onorjeet Goswami, Suraj Kumar, Yash Kumar and Suryakant.
"Only Onorjeet is the student of Super-30 and rest of the students who have been claimed by Anand Kumar to be his belong to other coaching institutes. Kumar had promised them hefty money as scholarship to be part of his conspiracy," alleged Gagan, a student of Super-30.
Suraj Kumar is said to have taken coaching at an institute in Kota, Rajasthan but was presented by Anand Kumar as one of his Super-30 students. The "whistleblower" students also claimed that IIT aspirants thronging to Super-30 were asked to enroll themselves at another engineering coaching centre by the name, Ramanuj Classes paying Rs 33,040 as fee.
A local daily quoted former Super-30 students as saying that fascinated and encouraged by the success of Super-30 over the years, IIT aspirants would land in Patna seeking admission in Anand Kumar's institute. But the IIT aspirants, the former Super-30 students claimed, came in for a rude shock when they were asked to take admission in the Ramanuj Classes.
Anand Kumar used to mislead these students by saying that Super-30 students will be selected based on the performance of the students at the Ramanuj Classes. Around 40 students used to enroll in Ramanuj Classes hoping that they would get selected in Super-30.
It is being alleged that by asking IIT aspirants to enroll in Ramanuj Classes, Anand Kumar made over Rs 1 crore annually. Despite several attempts and calls, Anand Kumar could not be contacted for his comments on the allegations leveled against him.
Courtesy: www.indiatoday.in
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LPG crisis: Karnataka temples gear up to stock wooden logs for ‘Prasada’
Bengaluru (PTI): Temples in Karnataka have started preparations to stock wooden logs fearing that the LPG shortage could hamper the ‘Prasada’ preparation and distributions to the devotees.
The looming LPG crisis in the state in the wake of Iran-Israel conflict has made the temple managements jittery.
According to the Akhila Karnataka Hindu Temple Archakas Federation (AKHTAF) president M S Venkatachalaiah, there is no immediate crisis in the temples.
“We have LPG cylinder stock that can last for a week but if this scarcity continues then there will be a problem in serving Prasada (offerings to the deity) to the devotees,” AKHTAF president said.
He added that many temples in the state have started stocking wooden logs to overcome the LPG crisis.
“Our temples have started preparing to store wooden logs to prepare Prasada though currently we don’t have a problem, at least for a week,” Venkatachalaiah told PTI.
Another priest working in a temple belonging to the state Endowment Department said the temples may have to go back to the traditional way of cooking as done in the ancient time using wood.
The LPG crisis has not affected the mid-day meal programme for government school students yet, though there was a meeting in the Education Department to find ways to tackle if crisis deepens, sources associated with the Mid-day Meal programme said.
Meanwhile, the largest partner of the Mid-day Meal programme in the country is Akshaya Patra.
The NGO said they do not depend much on LPG gas cylinder.
“The LPG crisis has not affected us. Our kitchens are steam-based, and we generate steam through boilers which run on electricity. That’s point number one. Point number two—gas is used only for very minor things, mainly for seasoning. That is the tadka,” an Akshaya Patra executive told PTI.
According to him, the NGO has has a gas reserves for about nearly one month across India, though gas is used in very small quantities every day.
He pointed out that the Mid-day meal programme will not be affected because in one or one-and-a-half weeks, schools will close owing to summer vacation.
Akshaya Patra feeds 23.5 lakh children across more than 24,000 schools across India, in 16 states and three Union Territories, he said.
