RISHI VALLEY EDUCATION CENTRE
CHITTOOR DISTRICT,
ANDHRA PRADESH - 517352
INDIA
TEL: 91-8571-280044/280086/280582/280622
EMAIL: OFFICE@RISHIVALLEY.ORG

Rishi Valley Education Centre is run by Krishnamurti Foundation India. It is located in a sheltered valley in the interior of rural Andhra Pradesh, about 15km from the nearest town Madanapalle, and about 140 km north-east of Bangalore.

The site of the school, chosen by Krishnamurti for its remarkable atmosphere of peace and serenity, is an undulating landscape of fields, rain-fed streams and scattered villages, surrounded by ancient granite hills with striking rock formations. Located in a drought-prone area, the hill slopes were once sparse in vegetation and the valley floor dotted with an occasional banyan or tamarind tree. Years of sustained reforestation and water conservation measures have transformed the school campus into a veritable forest area and the once-barren hillside bordering the campus is now covered with a green cover of young trees. Conservation and enhancement of the natural environment remains one of the school's core values. In July 1991 Rishi Valley was officially declared a bird-preserve, and was cited by the International Council for bird preservation.