New Era High School

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The New Era High School is located in Panchgani, a modern hill station town well-known as an educational centre containing well-established schools, in the state of Maharashtra, India. It was founded in August 1945, and was one of the first Bahá'í education projects in India. At present it is private academy, drawing students from all over the world.

Special attention is given to academic excellence, moral education the promotion of values for world citizenship, and social and economic development in rural areas.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the school gradually began to establish a series of programmes to assist poor and underdeveloped villages in the region. It started as a service project for students and evolved into a separate institution known as the New Era Development Institute in 1987.