[1] The programme selects 30 talented candidates each year from economically underprivileged sections of Indian society and trains them for the JEE.

The programme is portrayed in the 2019 film, Super 30, starring Hrithik Roshan as Anand Kumar, and his school, have been the subject of several smear campaigns, some of which have been carried in Indian media sources.

[2] In 2002, Anand Kumar and Abhayanand started Super 30 with the plan to select 30 talented students from economically impoverished sections who could not afford IIT coaching.

[10][11][12] The organization also received praise from US President Barack Obama's special envoy Rashad Hussain, who termed it the "best" institute in the country.

[17] In August 2018, The Hindu reported that Kumar and his school are frequently the focus of faked smear campaigns, and identified the potential sources of the fabricated stories that appeared in the Dainik Jagran newspaper in July.

[2][18] Bollywood director Vikas Bahl cast Hrithik Roshan for his film Super 30, which is based on the life and works of Anand Kumar.