 500 a month, and began his own institute, the Ramanujan School of Mathematics (RSM).Within the span of year, his class grew from two students to thirty-six, and after three years almost 500 students had enrolled.Then in early 2000, when a poor student came to him seeking coaching for IIT-JEE, who could not afford the annual admission fee due to poverty, Kumar was motivated to start the Super 30 programme in 2002, for which he is now well-known.