Rahmani-30: A school of hope



By Kashif-ul-Huda


Feature ArticleThe Muslims of North India for historical reasons have not had
very
friendly relations with the local police. I was in Patna visiting
Rahmani-30 when Abhayanand, Additional Director General of Police makes
a visit in his official car. Rahmani-30 is set up on the pattern of
Bihar Super-30 which is a successful experiment to pick and train 30
students from poor economic background and prepare them for entrance
exam of famous Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

Abhyanand
waits while group of twenty odd Muslim students finish their afternoon
prayers (Asr). These students have recently appeared for the class
tenth exams and selected to Rahmani-30 after an entrance test and an
interview. Entrance test was held in Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal
– clearly a sign of increasing popularity of the institution that is
barely a year old.

A year ago, Maulana Wali Rahmani, Sajjada
Nasheen of Khanqah Rahmaniya, Munger and Secretary of All India Muslim
Personal Law Board requested Abhayanand to help him set up Rahmani-30.
Abhayanand was associated with Super-30 and readily agreed to the idea.
The dearth of good quality students led them to start another batch of
students who had just finished their tenth. So that they can be given
quality education for two years and that way more students can be ready
for the tough entrance exams of IITs (IIT-JEE).

I was visiting
the institution just three days before the results of IIT-JEE were to
be announced. No one could have imagined that all ten students would
have qualified for India's premier engineering institutions. At that
time there were about twenty-five students who had arrived there from
different districts of Bihar. A few students were from adjoining states
of Jharkhand and West Bengal. These are the two years batch of
Rahmani-30 that is preparing for IIT-JEE of 2011.

Abhayanand,
who goes by only one name, arrived unannounced and a class was
organized just after the Asr prayer. He went over some Physics problems
for about 45 minutes. Students came out to see him off and he offered
some words to inspire his young and eager students. Talks again turned
to Physics and he continued the instructions on the back of his
official car. This was a rare and a welcome sight to see police
officers contributing towards the future of young Muslim students.

ADGP
Abhayanand told me that he enjoys teaching and is now associated with
five such experiments. Most of the students of these five institutions
qualified for IIT. For economically and educationally backward state of
Bihar this is very good news. And more than news, it is a hope that now
even poor but meritorious students can achieve success with a bit of
help. In Bihar, Rahmani-30 has given a new direction to Muslim students
anxiously waiting for announcements of entrance exams and results.

Successful
students of this year's exam have already indicated that they will
teach their juniors and once finished with their education will work
for the benefit of the community. It costs Rs. 80,000 per year for each
student's expenses. Students are given free board, lodge and
instructions. All expenses are met by Rahmani Foundation.

Rahmani-30
is a beacon of hope for Bihari Muslims not only because of the help it
provides to meritorious students but also because a new generation of
Muslims is taking up interest in the community affairs. Though
Abhayanand and Wali Rahmani are the public face of Rahmani-30,
volunteer team behind this institution consists of young Muslims in
their 30s. These have jobs but volunteer their time to make sure that
wheel of this coaching keeps turning. They make decisions for the day
to day running to organizing exams.

With the successful result
of this year's IIT-JEE, Rahmani-30 and people associated with it have
proved that they mean business and that with focused and sustained
effort nothing is impossible.

Rahamani-30(Unit of Rahmani Foundation, Munger)

Address: Maulana Azad College of Business Management Campus,

Anisabad, Patna-2
Bihar
Contact: mdwalirahmani@...
Website: http://twocircles.net/rahmani30.html

Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net



Source: Kashif-ul-Huda

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