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Abhay Anand is an IPS officer and educationalist who conceptualized Super 30 to teach poor students to crack IIT JEE. Following his graduation from Science College, Patna, Abhay Anand was selected as the IPS officer
for the Bihar cadre after clearing UPSC Civil Services Examination in 1977. He was the ADG (headquarters) in 2006
and as such he concentrated on the speedy trial of Arms Act cases in Bihar.
Later, during his tenure as the ADG of Bihar Military Police,Patna, he
motivated the constables to donate generously from their salaries to
metamorphose a dilapidated government hospital into a modern nursing home with
state- of- the- art facilities for treatment of the police force and their
family members.[1] Abhayanand was appointed as D.G.P Bihar on 25
August 2011 and became the 48th D.G.P of the state of Bihar on 31 August 2011,
following the footsteps of his father Late Mr. Jagdanand who was the 28th
D.G.P, Bihar during 1985-86.
Education
Abhayanand did his schooling from St.
Xavier's High School, Patna and St. Michael's High
School, Patna. He majored in physics from Science College, and topped in his
class. His wife Dr. Nutan Anand is an obstetrician and gynecologist. They
married in Gangapur, Samsastipur, Bihar which is his wife's native village. He
comes from the powerful Bhumiar Brahmin Community of Bihar.
Director General of Police, Bihar
Abhayanand was appointed as D.G.P Bihar on 25
August 2011. He took charge as the 48th D.G.P of the state on 31 August 2011.[2] His father, the Late
Mr. Jagdanand was the 28th D.G.P, Bihar during 1985-86.
Speedy Trial
Abhayanand is said to be the brain behind the
speedy trial and convictions of criminals in Bihar. India. Bihar was infamous
for notorious criminals. Abhayanand came up with the concept of speedy-trial to
reign in the crime and criminal in Bihar. He wanted the police also to focus on
conviction. Arms Act, he believes is a powerful tool, which the police can use
to instill fear of law in the unabating lawbreakers in Bihar. Since witnesses
in an Arms Act cases were mostly policemen, he thought, there wouldn't be the risk
of not getting witnesses or witnesses turning hostile during trial. The state
judiciary also responded in equal measure and once the witnesses started
appearing timely, the court started concluding trial in lesser time. In few
cases Arms Act trial were concluded in less than a week.There were a record
number of convictions, including that of some of very powerful bahubalis
(musclemen). This had a huge impact on the law and order condition in Bihar.
The District Judiciary, in 2010 alone, convicted 14,311 persons in speedy
trials out of which 37 persons were awarded capital punishment and 1,875, life
imprisonment. As Abhayanand had envisoned, this instilled the fear of law in
the lawbreakers. This initiative has drawn the attention of many across the
world. Princeton Review has done a study on this.[3][4]
Special Auxiliary Force (SAF)
To deal with shortage of manpower in the
police, Abhayanand came up with the idea of recruiting retired army men. Given
that the ex-army men were already trained in arms and combat, there was no ramp
up time needed for them. They were ready to contribute from day one. The state
government adopted this idea and in few days 5000 ex-army men were recruited by
the Bihar state police force. This concept soon became a role model and other
states such as Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand started recruiting ex-army
men.[5][6]
Super 30
Abhayanand
conceptualized the program Super 30, a free tutorial to coach 30 bright
youngsters from underprivileged families of rural Bihar for the IIT entrance test. He wanted to give an opportunity to talented
children from poor families to compete with the more privileged ones for the
IIT Joint Entrance Examination. Students for this program were selected through
a competitive exam. The students who got selected then had to live at one place
and prepare for the IIT-JEE under the academic
mentor ship of Abhayanand. He started this endeavor in 2003 when 18 children
qualified for entrance test and then consequently
22 in 2004, 26 in 2005, 28 in 2006, 30 in 2007 and 30 again in 2008.
Rahmani 30
From 2003 to 2008 Abhayanand used to coach the
students along with Anand Kumar. However he split from Anand Kumar in 2007 and
then wanted to take his social experiment to a wider forum so that more
under-privileged but talented children can benefit out of it. He started a
program called Rahmani 30 where under privileged Muslim students were
selected and then coached for the JEE. In the inaugural year
of Rahmani 30, 2009 all of the 10 students’ part of this program had cleared JEE. In 2010, 4 students
out of 12 cracked entrance test. 3 out of 15 Rahmani30 students cleared the exam in 2011.
As quoted be Abhayanand "the number in
the name does not signify the number of students who were part of the
group".
CSRL Super 30s sponsored by PSUs(Public Sector Undertakings)
Abhayanand also provides academic mentor ship
to various such programs run by CSRL. These programs include Utkarsh Superb 30
Assam, Utkarsh
Superb 30 Delhi,\GAIL Utkarsh Superb 60 Kanpur, Utkarsh Superb
30 Guwahati, Utkarsh Superb 30 Delhi. These programs are sponsored by various
Indian PSUs (Public Sector Undertakings) such as GAIL, Powergrid, Oil India
Limited. In 2011, 12 out of 20 students cracked the entrance test, 8 out of 20
qualified from Kanpur and 1 out of 3 passed the examination from Guwahati.
Super 30 multiplies to districts; Magadh Super 30, Triveni Super
30 Patna
Abhayanand also wanted the society to realize
its potential by helping the under-privileged children to compete for one of
the toughest examination of India. He provides academic mentor ship to students
of Magadh Super30,[12][13] a program sun by the people
of Gaya on similar lines as Super30. Magadh Super 30 was started in 2008.[14] In 2011 2 out of 15
students cracked the IIT entrance test. Another such program Triveni Super 30 is run
by Triveni Shubhakaran Trust, Calcutta in Patna which is also mentored by
Abhayanand. 8 out of 15 students from Triveni Super 30 passed the IIT entrance test in 2011.
Noticeably, He selects students on the basis
of written exam followed by factual interview.till now, each year number of
selected students have been less than 30, because of a student have to face a
Rigorous interview.
Reference Articles
Indian school helping the
brightest Muslims
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Rahmani
30 - a training institute which prepares talented but underprivileged young
Muslims for entry into India's best engineering colleges - the Indian
Institutes of Technology (IIT).
Only
the top 2% make it through the stiff entrance exam.
Getting
ahead
India's
large Muslim minority is consistently placed at the bottom of social and
economic rankings. Part of this has to do with education - most Muslims end up
studying in madrassas, which means they have little chance of being employed in
the private sector or government.
So the
significance of Rahmani's initiative is not lost on anyone.
It is
the brainchild of a senior Bihar police officer, Abhyanand, who takes time off
from his day job to teach the boys physics. Rahmani was inspired by a similar
school - the Super 30, where Abhyanand used to work and which is also aimed at
poor children but not Muslims exclusively.
"In
our country, any difficult examination is very fearful because a huge number of
students take part but only a few get in," Abhyanand says.
The
advantage at Rahmani, he says, is the kind of students they get - mostly from
poor backgrounds and determined to get ahead in life.
"They
come from a rural background and that is their strength. They become
competitive because, for them, it is a win or lose situation.
"If
they don't make it they don't stand anywhere [socially and economically]."
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