WASHINGTON: Exhorting experts, scholars and students of the Harvard University to use their expertise in the "big fight" against illiteracy and poverty, the founder of well-known Super 30 tutorial programme in Bihar has called for quality and non-discriminatory education to all.

"Making quality and non-discriminatory education to all is a big responsibility, as this alone has the power to rid the world of its basic problems of poverty, illiteracy and deprivation," Anand Kumar said.

He added: "Unless that is addressed, the world will keep encountering its various ugly manifestations."

Delivering a lecture at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Kumar exhorted experts, scholars and students to use their expertise in the big fight against illiteracy, poverty and deprivation.

Kumar is the founder of Super 30, an educational programme that started in Patna.

Established in 2002, the programme selects 30 meritorious and talented candidates each year from economically backward sections of society and trains them for the IIT-JEE, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology.

"Harvard University is the top-rung school of the world and those who pass out from here have a standing in the society. The world expects a lot from them and that is where the real purpose lies," he said.

Kumar said they are expected to "look beyong self" and provide solutions to the world's pressing problems.

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