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KOTA, India - In April, Abhishek Anand, a 17-year-old student, moved more than 1,200km away from his home in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India. The destination was Kota in Rajasthan, a city in India’s west known for its coaching industry that prepares children for college entrance exams.
It was the first step in a journey that Abhishek hopes will lead him to a spot at one of the country’s Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), prestigious institutions that have produced leaders of top firms such as Google, Twitter, FedEx and IBM.
