Super 30 founder Anand Kumar to launch online educational platform for poor

Super 30 founder and mathematician Anand Kumar has said that he would soon launch a new online educational platform to take education to the doorsteps of the poor and underprivileged students in India.

In his speech at the 2024 Kellogg India Business Conference on the theme "Reimagining India: Shaping the Global Economic Landscape," organized by the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Kumar said that the time has come to embrace the available technology to reach out to more and more students.  

Maintaining that the disruption caused by the life-changing Covid pandemic taught him a lot, as connected with students stuck in home through social media to engage with them, Kumar said one could learn a lot from adversities.

Kumar said it would fulfil that has been his dream to see every underprivileged student educated.

The poorest also deserve quality education. Time has come to move out of the labs to get a feel of poverty in nations and villages, where people don't even get electricity, clean water and proper food. Now the time has come and technology is also there to connect with the poor irrespective of region, he said.

According to Kumar the best use of technology would be to ensure that opportunities must reach the have-nots, he said this was the responsibility of the society to make it happen to increase the talent pool for the prosperity of the world and benefit of humanity at large.