Co-founder of Super 30 is now Bihar's top cop-Abhayanandis the new director-general of police (DGP) in Bihar.

Giridhar Jha Patna, September 1, 2011 | UPDATED 15:16 IST

Co-founder of Super 30 is now Bihar's top cop

Abhayanand is a 1977-batch IPS officer
Abhayanand is a 1977-batch IPS officer

Abhayanand, the co-founder of the pioneering coaching institute, Super 30, that grooms poor children for admission to the prestigious IITs, is the new director-general of police (DGP) in Bihar.

The 1977-batch IPS officer who was holding the post of ADG (training), took charge from Neelmani, who retired on Wednesday.

Abhayanand became the senior-most police officer of the state 25 years after his father Jagdanand retired from the same post in 1986. He is likely to have a longer tenure as the state DGP than many of his predecessors since he is due to retire on December 31, 2014.

After assuming charge, Abhayanand said his immediate challenges were to ensure the credibility of the force and instil a sense of fear of the police in the minds of criminals.

"I would also like that in the course of his duty, a policeman should rather be seen as a human being than as a law enforcer," he said, stressing the need for the force to have a human face.

Known as an upright officer who has always called for making the state police a peoplefriendly force, Abhayanand shot to fame with the success of Super 30 that he co-founded with Anand Kumar, a young mathematician from Bihar, in 2003 to help underprivileged students make it to the IITs.

As a popular physics teacher, "Abhayanand Sir", as he is fondly called, remained part of Super 30 till he decided to disassociate himself with the institute in 2008.

In his first year with Super 30 in 2003, 18 of the 30 students of the institute cleared the IIT joint entrance examination. Five years later when he left, all the 30 students of Super 30 had qualified the JEE . In the past few years, he was associated with a few other institutes where he taught physics to the aspiring underprivileged students.

Abhayanand is also credited with the success of speedy trial of cases in Bihar, which was launched while he was the ADG (headquarters) in 2006.

Later, during his tenure as the ADG at Bihar Military Police in 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 family members of the police force.