समर्पण व लगन से मिलती है सफलता

साभार : दैनिक जागरण , पटना

मोकामा, प्रतिनिधि : अगर समर्पण व लगन से मंजिल पाने को ठान लें तो सफलता अवश्य मिलेगी। यह बातें रविवार को मोकामा स्थित श्री कृष्ण मारवाड़ी+2 विद्यालय में छात्र-शिक्षक संवाद गोष्ठी को संबोधित करते हुए एडीजी अभ्यानंद ने कही। गोष्ठी की अध्यक्षता सेवानिवृत्त प्राचार्य शिवनन्दन सिंह ने की। खचाखच भरे शिक्षा प्रेमियों को एक शिक्षक की भूमिका में अभयानंद ने कहा कि हर छात्रों को अपनी मंजिल खुद तय करनी पड़ती है। शिक्षक सिर्फ मार्गदर्शक बनकर प्रेरित करते हैं। हां दोनों के बीच समन्वय में कुछ पाने व कुछ देने का ललक जरूरत निहित होनी चाहिये। बीच-बीच में एडीजी ब्लैकबोर्ड पर प्रश्नों के उत्तर भी हल करते रहे। वहीं व्याख्यान का क्रम भी चलता रहा। मौके पर एसडीओ नौसाद यूसुफ, एएसपी सुजीत कुमार आदि भी उपस्थित थे।

The answer is thirty : Abhayanand

Courtsey :- Indian Express , Internet Edition
Sri Abhay Anand , IPS wrote to Indian Express on 19 Jun, 2008 :-

A foreign filmmaker who was following the progress of the students in Super 30, an institute that coaches underprivileged students for IIT, made a telling observation. How was it, he asked, that students at the institute help each other out as if they were collaborators instead of the competitors that they were.
In his question lay the answer to the institute’s success.
Making a group work towards a common goal is the most basic leadership process taught and practiced all over the world. What makes the process at Super 30 different is the fact that here the members of the group are not working towards a common cause. In fact, individually they are pitted against each other. If one of them qualifies in the IIT JEE, it cuts into the chances of others. Yet, anyone visiting the institute will observe how readily the students help each other.
I call this phenomenon ‘collaboration vs competition’. This is a managerial feat in which there is an attempt to create a sense of unison in a mutually competitive group. A normal coaching class that teaches a large number of students after charging a hefty package creates an array of competitors. Super 30, on the other hand, creates avid collaborators for free.

One day one of the Super 30 students came to me in one of my informal sessions with them. He had a seemingly difficult electrostatic problem, taken from a popular competitive magazine in physics. Instead of solving the problem for him, I shot back a few questions. The student went into a ‘thought-shell’. When he emerged from the shell, glee was writ large on his face. He had seen the problem through. The style of teaching at Super 30 is not to solve the problems of the students but only to help them solve these themselves. My definition of a good teacher is one who doesn’t give answers but keeps asking the right questions, thereby helping the students to get to their own answers.
After the results were announced and the students were ecstatically exchanging sweets, a pressman asked one of the students as to what he thought was so unique about the teaching process of Super 30. The student did not waste a moment to say that the teachers make the students think for themselves.
Preparing for and appearing in the IIT JEE examination is, by all accounts, a very testing and painful process, both for the students as well as their parents and peer group. If this pain needs to be minimised, then the principle of ‘anaesthetisation’ has to be applied. At Super 30, we hold a very large number of tests under simulated conditions. The tests are so frequent that the students don’t get time to even groan under its pressure. Their mind is steeled. Their attitude and temperament gets conditioned to success. The thought of failure vanishes. The process is so designed that the student’s performance peaks on D-day.
A class test was being held. One of the problems in physics related to a carpet. A student quipped, “What is a carpet?” This may sound ridiculous to some. One must understand that most of the students at Super 30 come from a rural background. They do not understand words in English except those used regularly in science and mathematics. At Super 30 we help them to get over the inferiority feeling that often tends to assail them, and excel in the abilities they have. We have noticed that they manage to cover up their deficiencies during their stay in the IIT.
Giving back to society is what we try to inculcate in the students of Super 30. We are happy to note that a lot of them are trying to live up to this. It is slightly early to expect a wholesome return at this stage of their career. I just hope that they are able to live up to the expectations of the society that has given them whatever they have.


The writer, the additional director-general of military police in Bihar, taught physics at Super 30 till recently...

Super 30 multiplies to districts

Santosh Singh of The Indian Express Writes :-

SANTOSH SINGH

PATNA, OCTOBER 20 : After disassociating himself from the original Super 30, Bihar Military Police (BMP) Additional Director General of Police Abhayanand is taking the concept even further.

Now, the ADGP has involved former Bihar Legislative Council member Maulana Wali Rehmani to start a “Rehmani Super 30” at Patna; businessmen, doctors and engineers to start a “Magadh Super 30” at Gaya; an “Ang Super 30” at Bhagalpur; and a “Nalanda Super 30” at Biharsharif.

With the sixth batch of students trained by him and mathematician Anand Kumar as part of Super 30 in Patna all clearing this year's IIT-JEE exams, Abhayanand had bid the project goodbye. Saying he had nothing more to prove at the centre, he had said that he wanted to take the experiment in "social laboratory" to other marginalised groups.

The first stop was the almost defunct hospital of the Bihar Military Police, which this police officer-cum-physics teacher revived with the help of the constabulary. And now, he is ready to start more Super 30s.


Ads By GoogleSays Abhayanand: “We conducted physics, chemistry and mathematics tests this August and selected 10 Muslim students (all boys) for Rehmani 30, 17, including two girls, at Gaya, 13 students, including two girls, at Biharsharif and eight at Bhagalpur.”
These students will be trained for the IIT-JEE examination and provided free accommodation for the eight months (September to April) running up to it. Community funding (Rs 5-7 lakh for an entire session at a centre) will help run the programme.

At “Magadh Super 30” at Dandibagh, Gaya, about a dozen businessmen and doctors pooled in Rs 5 lakh to support the students for the entire session. “It was very easy to sell the concept. The community just lapped it up after a single canvassing,” says Abhayanand.

At Biharsharif, Arvind Kumar, who runs a school, has volunteered to support “Nalanda Super 30” along with some doctors; while two retired professors of Bhagalpur College of Engineering have been teaching mathematics and physics at “Ang Super 30”.

Though the groups are called “Super 30”, the numbers have been far less until now. They are to be chosen only after they clear the required standards, says the ADGP.

The students, from mostly poor backgrounds, are allowed to leave for homes only during festivals. The police officer wants his students to stay away from media glare until they become successful. “I am in-charge of academic activities, the managerial part is being taken care of by...

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