Shobha Raju has trained around 15000 students till date. Many of her students are now professional singers. She imparts training not only in music but also in human values, thus giving a greater direction to lives.

Her short term courses particularly the summer camps entitled,”Vesavi Vennela”, are very popular and are followed by many other artistes.

“…Excelling even the qualified and seasoned teachers of music, she not only gave a gist of the emotional content of each composition, the raga and tala in which it is set, the essential intricacies of swara articulation in the particular scale of raga first and made the learners sing the lyrics with notation….for the uninitiated who thronged the venue, it presented a picture of a grand spectacle of sound rapport between the lone teacher and hundreds of the taught.”

…THE HINDU, JUNE 14, 2004.