Now, Gangtok to get Rancho school too

Rancho's school is going places. Another one, and unique at that, is being set up in Gangtok by the Drukpa lineage of Mahayana Buddhism that is running Druk Padma School in Leh, where the climax of Bollywood hit " Three Idiots" was shot. It would be one-of-its-kind eco-school in the country, as only bamboo would be used in its structure.

The school would provide an effective modern education while maintaining traditional values and cultures of Buddhism for equipping children for a life in the 21st century. It would also provide residential facility for children from Sikkim's remote areas, and a programme of sponsorship will ensure that the poorest are not excluded.

According to a spokesperson for Drukpa Lineage, a team of world's eminent architects has been assigned to prepare the school's building.


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