Odisha

Super 30’s Anand Kumar Inspires Odisha Medical Aspirants

Bhubaneswar: An initiative by a city-based organisation to help poor students crack the NEET exam for admission to medical colleges has been praised by ‘Super 30’ founder Anand Kumar, who is credited with launching a similar drive in 2002.

Kumar recently visited Bhubaneswar and interacted with the students of the ‘Zindagi’ programme to encourage the initiative, sources said.

The programme aims at bringing a turnaround in the lives of poor children who due to lack of resources, could not give wings to their dream despite being talented. It also bears the students’ food and lodging expenses.

The ‘Super 30’ fame mathematician showered accolades on the founder of Zindagi Foundation, Ajay Bahadur Singh,who like him battled hardship while studying. Singh is now empowering children of vegetable sellers, fishermen and marginal farmers to get admitted to premier institutes.

“More Ajay Bahadur Singhs are needed in the society as one Super 30 is not enough to take the huge silent revolution forward with sustained vigour,” Kumar said.

While Singh’s organisation prepares students for the NEET exam, that of Kumar in Patna trains IIT aspirants to qualify the JEE.

Mr Singh had to quit his studies midway due to his father’s kidney ailment in 1990 that had drained the savings of the family. He was compelled to sell tea and sherbet to help his family survive.

Singh thanked Kumar for encouraging the programme by visiting the foundation. “He (Kumar) gave me the ‘guru mantra’to carry forward the work. His words encouraged me and also inspired my pupils to achieve success,” Singh told news agency PTI.

The founder of the Zindagi Foundation had earlier said he was motivated to start the programme after encountering a girl selling garlands outside the Lord Jagannath temple in Puri so she could meet the expenses of her studies.

Launched in 2016, 19 students, both boys and girls from across Odisha, are at present being prepared by the foundation for the exam. Fourteen of the foundation’s students had cracked the NEET in 2018 and 12 of them got admitted in government medical colleges in Odisha. They were also hosted by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in July last year who appreciated their achievement.

OB Bureau

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