Bihar Students Prove they are the Best!
Patna: May 30, 2008
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Bihar Students Prove they are the Best!
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While the segregationist Maharashtra leader Raj Thackeray was dreaming up his next move to embarrass Biharis and how to physically hurt them so they all pack their bags and leave Maharashtra for good, students in Bihar were quietly banding together to show him and others that in today's age there was no room for hate-mongers like Thackeray and violence was no way to exert one's supremacy.
On Friday, not only the students of Bihar, including 100% of the prestigious Super-30 institute, cracked the rigorous IIT Joint Entrance Exam, but also Patna resident Shiti Kanth blew away his fellow-competitors by acing the exam and securing the top place in the nation.
Surrounded by his family members in Patna, Shiti could not hold back his excitement when he received a call from Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who invited him to his residence on 1 Anne Marg to congratulate him on his grand success.
"I was confident of my success but to be in the number one in the list was not something I had dreamed of," a humble Shiti told the media reporters.
A former student of Patna's St. Michael's High School, Shiti is the son of Dr. Arun Kumar Barnwal and Dr Anita Barnwal. He spent last two years with Bansal Coaching Institute in Kota in Rajasthan to prepare for his IIT entrance test.
Meanwhile, all 30 of the Super-30 Institute run by Director General of Police (DGP) Abhyanand and mathematician Anand Kumar, scored success in the IIT entrance test further strengthening the name and fame of the institute that has earned worldwide recognition and accolade for hand-picking 30 under-privileged students each year and transforming them into IIT geniuses.
Other institutes in Patna that also recorded impressive results include 42 students from FIT/JEE, 21 from Parmar Classes, and 22 from Genius-40.
More than a dozen students in the state who prepared for the exams on their own also aced the test.
It was celebration everywhere on Friday. Students distributing sweets, appearing before the cameras, and just plain glowing in the light of their success added more prestige to the state that a barrelful of politicians have not been able to do for ages.
Impressed by the Bihar students' smashing success in the IIT/JEE, the Chief Minister congratulated all the students, their proud family members, and the coaching institutes involved in shaping their future.
Even as the state was rolling in euphoria following the success of Bihar students, over a dozen readers of PatnaDaily.Com wrote complaining about a news item that appeared in the online version of the Hindu newspaper that claimed Shiti Kanth was in fact a 'Mumbai boy'.
With the headline screaming "Mumbai boy tops IIT-JEE 2008", the article read:
"Results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2008 for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology were declared on Friday. Shitikanth from the Bombay zone is the All-India topper in the prestigious examination." (link here)
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