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Abhishek Gupta is the son of Dilip Gupta, a daily wage generator operator working in Gurgaon.

In yet another feather to its cap, Abhishek Gupta, a student from the Super 30 coaching institute for poor and underprivileged students, has been offered full scholarship from the University of Tokyo for admission.
Abhishek Gupta is the son of Dilip Gupta, a daily wage generator operator working in Gurgaon. The university’s offer letter is for a four-year full scholarship, which includes admission and tuition fees and monthly allowances, apart from accommodation.
Earlier last year, university authorities visited the Super 30 institute and later invited its founder and mathematician, Anand Kumar, to Japan. They agreed to sponsor a student for admission.
Proud moment

“Today they fulfilled their commitment. It is a very proud moment for me and all of us here in the institute,” Mr. Kumar told The Hindu. He further hoped that Japan, as the technological hub of the world, would provide a big opportunity to his student for global exposure.
“It’s like a dream come true … I’m yet to believe this fact but it all happened because of Anand sir,” Mr. Dilip Gupta said.
Abhishek would be getting admission to the International Program on Environmental Sciences at College of Arts and Sciences, Komaba, under the Kikuchi-UTokyo Scholarship programme.
Super 30 is a pioneering coaching institute of Patna, which gives free tuition and accommodation to the poor and underprivileged students preparing for premier engineering tests of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Since 2003 over 350 students from the have cracked the IIT-JEE.