Anand Kumar felicitated at the business meet of XLRI

PATNA: Super 30 founder and mathematician Anand Kumar on Sunday said the role of educated youth in the social sector was invaluable if a country like India was to realize the avowed objective of ‘inclusive growth’, with the dream better education, better health and better living standard for a teeming populace becoming a reality.
Kumar, whose innovative Super 30 has achieved worldwide recognition, was speaking at XLRI Jamshedpur’s flagship annual business summit, Ensemble 2013, on the topic ‘Role of educated youth in the Social Sector: Cultivating the spirit of giving back to the society" in Jamshedpur on Sunday.
More than 1,500 teams from business schools across the nation including IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Bangalore, IIM-Shillong attended the event. Kumar said it was important for the educated youth of the country to rise to the challenge and give back to the country. “There is nothing as joyous as the feeling of giving. And one can feel the joy only if one gives. This culture has to develop in our country and only the youth can do it,” he added.
He said, achieving personal milestones and drawing fat pay and perks could give joy to an individual or a family, but that is now real success. “Real success is reflected through one’s contributions to the society. In the west, successful people and highly educated individuals do take to social sector to achieve a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment,” he added.
Citing the example of Bill Gates, he said if a man from so far away can come to India and Bihar to work for the suffering humanity, isn’t time our youth took a leaf out of his book for their own country and people.
“To prevent a vertical split in the country between India and Bharat, it is time the educated youth come forward to help the society with their knowledge and expertise,” he added.
Kumar had hoped to study at Cambridge University in Britain, but when acute financial problems saw him giving up that dream, he set up Super 30 to help poor students, providing free residential coaching.
Time magazine has earlier described Super 30 as the "best of Asia", while Newsweek had listed the school as one of the world's four innovative schools.
Discovery Channel, which made an hour-long documentary on Anand Kumar and Super 30, described it as a "revolutionary experiment to bring about social change".