IntroductionAbout Tapas Tapas initiated in 2012, is a free residential 2-years, 11th & 12th and coaching education program that aims to enable selected meritorious underprivileged boys, who are selected through a multi-level selection process, to crack the IIT-JEE and join India’s premier Engineering Institutes. The students undergo a complete transformation in 2 years that enables them to successfully tackle the very tough IIT-JEE entrance exams while competing against lakhs of very well prepared and privileged students from all over India and emerge successful to join IITs/NITs. Inspiration Super 30 of Anand Kumar of Patna, Bihar is the inspiration behind Tapas. It is a highly ambitious, most successful and innovative educational program running under the banner of "Ramanujan School of Mathematics". It hunts for 30 meritorious talents from among the economically backward sections of the society and shapes them for India's most prestigious institution – the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). In the last seven years, it has produced hundreds IITians from extremely poor background. During this program students are provided absolutely free coaching, lodging and food. Super 30 targets students from extremely poor families. Anand Kumar, a mathematics prodigy, was born in Chandipur Bela. Patna, He secured a place in Cambridge University but couldn’t attend because he had no money and sold papads in the evenings instead. He dealt with his own disappointment by setting up an innovative school in 2002 to prepare underprivileged students for the IIT JEE examination.