 "Newsweek Magazine" has taken note of the initiative of mathematician Anand Kumar's Super 30 and included his school in the list of four most innovative schools in the world.Kumar was given the top award of Bihar government, "Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Shiksha Puraskar", in November 2010.He was awarded the "Prof. Yashwantrao Kelkar Yuva Puraskar" award in 2010 by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in Bangalore.