Why in news:

• Rajasthan government is constructing a world-class city park worth Rs 100 crores in the centre of the coaching hub in Kota city.
• The park is intended to keep coaching students de-stressed and promote eco-tourism.
• The city is most likely to get this new ‘state-of-the-art’ park this year.

Key Points:

• Kota is home to over 1.75 lakh students from all over the country for coaching of medical and engineering entrance examinations including IIT-JEE and NEET. But the city lacked adequate recreation for the student population.
• As stress among the students has remained a cause of 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 de-stressed.
• The park is being constructed on over 71 acres of land of the closed public sector undertaking unit of government of India named Instrumentation Limited which witnessed shutdown a couple of years ago.
• The city park development work started more than a year ago and is now reaching completion.
• 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, amphitheatre, Art hill, botanical garden, Kinetic rotary tower, Star Plaza fountain, Disc fountains.
• Besides, the park will also house 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, Inverted pyramid, Food Arena, Play zone for children will attract students and tourists.
• In addition, ‘Knowledge is freedom’ statue and ‘Statues of Scientists’ will also motivate the students.
• The City Park Kota will keep the temperature under control in nearly 8 km periphery in the summers in this desert state town.
• 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.
• Famous architect, Anoop Bartaria has designed the City Park. Bartaria informed 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.