Srinagar: Anand Kumar, Educationist from Bihar met Governor Satya Pal Malik at the Raj Bhavan on Wednesday.
Kumar who is known best for running his ‘Super 30 Programme’, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches underprivileged students for IIT-JEE, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), apprised Governor about his ongoing and future plans for extending coaching facilities to much larger number of students from families having meagre financial resources, the spokesman said.
Governor lauded the efforts of Kumar in providing residential coaching facilities to the deserving students and observed that such initiatives of mentoring youth in pursuing their professional dreams is what is required to guide young minds on the right track. He also praised his biopic ‘Super 30’ and observed that it would be made tax free in the State.
