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Kota is home to a massive Rs 6,000 crore coaching industry (File photo: PTI)
In a letter to Gehlot, Baghel said that a large number of students from Chhattisgarh live in Kota for coaching in various courses.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday requested his Rajasthan colleague Ashok Gehlot to allot an acre of land in Rajasthan’s Kota city free of cost for a hostel for central state students who were taking coaching there.
In a letter to Gehlot, who is in Raipur to attend the three-day plenary session of the Congress that began on Friday, Baghel said a large number of students from Chhattisgarh stay in Kota for coaching in various courses.
Presently both the states are ruled by the Congress.
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Kota is home to a huge Rs 6,000 crore coaching industry. Last year, around 2 lakh students enrolled in various coaching institutes in the city, mostly focused on JEE and NEET.
Baghel said that for the convenience of such students of Chhattisgarh, the state government is willing to build a hostel there.
The Chief Minister urged Gehlot to provide a plot of about one acre to the Government of Chhattisgarh at no cost to the Chhattisgarh government at a place away from the coaching institutes in Kota for the hostel.
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