Abhayanand

Abhayanand is a IPS officer(1977 batch) who has always called for  making the state police a people friendly force. He is also know for his contributions to the society. He conceptualized a social experiment called Super 30 to help poor students to crack IIT JEE, which is supposed to be the toughest undergraduate entrance test in India. 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.

Abhayanand did his schooling from St. Xavier's School,Patna and St. Michael's High School, Patna. He majored in physics at the top of his class from Science College,Patna. His wife Dr. Nutan Anand is a obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was appointed as D.G.P Bihar on 25th August 2011. He took charge as the 48th D.G.P of the state on 31st August 2011. His father Late Mr. Jagdanand was the 28th D.G.P, Bihar during 1985-86.

When shri Nitish Kumar became the chief minister of Bihar in 2005, his first goal was to amend law and order in the state. He gave this responsibility to ADG Abhayanand, which he honestly did his duty. It was the necessary steps taken by him that law and order is almost under control. He led emphasis on modernization of state police. He provided latest technology weapons to the state police. Due to political will in the state of Bihar in 2005 to control the threat created by unlawful elements, Abhayanand saw that there was manpower shortage in Bihar Police force to carry out operations against Naxalites and criminal gangs   He then came up with the idea of recruiting retired army men. Given that the ex-army men are already trained in arms and combats there was no ramp up time needed for them. They are ready to contribute day one. The state government quickly gave a buy in for this idea and shortly 5000 ex-army men were recruited by the Bihar state police force. This concept soon became a role model and other states such as Orissa, Madhya Pradesha and Jharkhand started recruiting ex-army men

Abhayanand conceptualized the programme Super 30, a free tutorial to coach 30 bright youngsters from underprivileged families of rural Bihar for the IIT entrance test. He wanted to give an opportunity to talented children from poor families to compete with the more privileged ones for the IIT Joint Entrance Examination. Students for this program were selcted through a competitive exam. The students who got selected then had to live at one place and prepare for the IIT-JEE under the academic mentor ship of Abhayanad. He started this endeavor in 2003 when 18 children qualified for entrance test and then consequently 22 in 2004, 26 in 2005, 28 in 2006, 30 in 2007 and 30 again in 2008

From 2003 to 2008 Abhayanand used to coach the students along with Anand Kumar. However he split from Anand Kumar in 2007 and then wanted to take his social experiment to a wider forum so that more under-privileged but talented children can benefit out of it. He started a program called Rahmani 30 where under privileged muslim students were selected and then coached for the JEE. In the inaugural year of Rahmani 30, 2009 all of the 10 students part of this program had cleared JEE. In 2010, 4 students out of 12 cracked entrance test. 3 out of 15 Rahmani30 students cleared the exam in 2011.Abhayanand quoted  "the number in the name does not signify the number of students who were part of the group".

Abhayanand also provides academic mentor ship to various such programs run by CSRL. Utkarsh Superb 30 Delhi, GAIL Utkarsh Superb 60 Kanpur, Utkarsh Superb 30 Guwahati, Utkarsh Superb 30 Delhi. These programs are sponsored by various Indian PSUs (Public Sector Undertakings) such as GAIL, Powergrid, Oil India Limited. In 2011, 12 out of 20 students cracked the entrance test, 8 out of 20 qualified from Kanpur and 1 out of 3 passed the examination from Guwahati. These programs include Utkarsh Superb 30 Assam