India’s largest engineering coaching hub, seems to be running out of space for coaching institutes. This may be a reason why Allen Career Institute has opened a new campus at Kunhari, 15 km away from Kota city centre.
The present cluster of coaching institutes is centred in the Vihar, Talwandi & Jawahar areas in the heart of Kota city. While land is still available in these areas, the large spaces required by these institutes to expand may not be available – the new construction craze in the vicinity focuses on creating housing and rental accommodations for students rather than new institutes.
Kunhari, on the other hand, has acres of empty space, fresh facilities and amenities. It is also more airy and less congested than Kota. No wonder then that Allen Career Institute has already started orientation programmes at their Kunhari campus. According to Allen Career Institute’s director Naveen Maheshwari, the student numbers are expected to rise from the current 500 to nearly 20,000 in the years to come.
When this correspondent visited Kunhari, they found that students had already started making their way there. Some were seen searching for accommodation and making deals, others were buying essential commodities. Abhigyan Shukla from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh told PaGaLGuY that he was hunting for a place to stay as his coaching programme was about to start soon.
Being within Kota, Kunhari is not that culturally different from the present coaching hub itself. Geographically though, it is considered to be on the outskirts of Kota. While the Allen campus may be the first to be built here, it is expected that others will follow soon, as Kunhari may just have the fresh air required to reduce the pressures on the overcrowded and fatigued coaching industry in Kota city.