Super 30 founder and mathematician Anand Kumar today welcomed the central government decision to waive fee for SC/ST, physically challenged students and those from the below poverty line (BPL) families for undergraduate courses in IITs.
"It is a welcome step for thousands of students from underprivileged sections of the society carrying dreams of making it to India's premier IITs. The government has felt for them and waived fee, which will only contribute to nation's progress," Kumar said in a statement here.
"The poor invariably struggle even to reach the IIT stage and if money comes in the way after reaching there, it could be heartbreaking. Now the government has made deserving students from poor families carefree," he added.
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