Rajasthan: Rs 100 crore city park to motivate and de-stress students in coaching hub Kota and promote eco-tourism.
Rajasthan government is constructing a world-class city park worth Rs 100 crores in the heart of the coaching hub in Kota city to keep coaching students motivated and de-stressed and promote eco-tourism. The city is all set to get this new ‘state-of-the-art’ park in the new year.
The park is being constructed on over 71 acres of land of the closed public sector undertaking unit of the government of India named Instrumentation Limited which saw a shutdown a couple of years ago.
Ankit Mayank, a Congress supporter said, “Congress Govt of Rajasthan converted a dumping yard into a magnificent City Park in 2 years. Less noise, more work.
That’s Congress Governance Model for you.”
Congress Govt of Rajasthan converted a dumping yard into a magnificent City Park in 2 years.
Less noise, more work.
That's Congress Governance Model for you.pic.twitter.com/MdBg8Ui7H9— Ankit Mayank (@mr_mayank) October 28, 2022
Kota is known for its stream of over 1.75 lakh students from all over India for coaching in medical and engineering entrance examinations including IIT-JEE and NEET but the city lacked adequate recreation for the student population. As stress and anxiety rose among the students causing concern in Kota in the past, the Rajasthan government is now developing a world-class city park with an investment of Rs 100 crores to keep students happy, positive and de-stressed and build a motivational atmosphere favorable for studies as well.
It is built on the lines of Madrid’s Retro Park and New York’s City park, the Rajasthan government is constructing ‘City Park Kota’ through its local self-body named Urban Improvement Trust (UIT) Kota.
The city park development works started more than a year ago and are now reaching their completion. The Urban Development and Housing Minister of the Rajasthan Government, Shanti Kumar Dhariwal, who also hails from Kota, told that “With 74% green cover and 50k trees and plants, the City Park will have amusement structures for the students including leisure trails, art gallery, Egg shape Aviary with foreign species birds, amphitheater, Art hill, botanical garden, Kinetic rotary tower, Star Plaza fountain, Disc fountains, Plafood court, open gyms, musical fountain, Jogging Track, Volcano structure, Science Garden, Punting canals, Duck pond, Wi-Fi cyber zone, and shrub garden.”
Nearly 16% area of the park will have water bodies including ponds and canals while only 12% area will have permanent concrete structures which also will be environment friendly like amenities for students, elderly people, and tourists. Wi-fi cafes, an Inverted pyramid, Food Arena, Play zone for children will attract students and tourists, ‘Knowledge is freedom’ statue and ‘Statues of Scientists’ will also motivate the students, said Dhariwal.
The City Park Kota will up the environment quotient of the coaching hub and keep the temperature under control in nearly 8 km periphery in the summers in this desert state town.
The Officer on Special Duty, UIT, Kota, RD Meena asserted that “Kota coaching drives the economy of Kota and students and their parents visiting Kota are tourism ambassadors so when these new development projects would be developed in Kota then Kota will be known as a tourist destination”.
He said that 80% work of the city park has been completed and the park is all set to get ready by April-May this year.
Famous architect, Anoop Bartaria has designed the City Park. Mr. Bartaria said that since a large number of coaching students arrives in Kota so the central park has been designed in such a way that it will also de-stress students.
Director, Allen Career Institute, Naveen Maheshwari said that there was no major park or recreational facilities for the students in the coaching hub so City Park will not only develop recreational facilities for the students but will also promote ecotourism in the town.
Since the city park is located in the coaching area of the city, students also are jubilant about the under-constructed city park.
Kota is a city with an area of 221.4 km² built on the Chambal River in Rajasthan, northern India. Inside the Kota Garh, or City Palace, the Maharao Madho Singh Museum exhibits miniature paintings and antique weapons. South, along the river, tranquil Chambal Garden has a pond with crocodiles. Northeast, 18th-century Jagmandir Palace sits in the middle of Kishore Sagar Lake. Seven Wonders Park includes mini replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Taj Mahal. Kota was founded in 1631 and is about 391 years