Around 680 students, including nearly 300 from the minority community, study at the Shanti Swaroop Vidhyalaya run by a BJP leader Devdas Apte, called Bapu by locals, at a place 16 km from Ranchi, on the Ranchi-Patratu road in Bihar.
Children from 20 villages attend this school. The school has an ambience of a gurukul where classes are held under trees. “Bapu never let us feel that he was an RSS man”, said the teachers including two Muslims. (Radiance Oct.1, 2000)
