Indus World School (IWS) is a chain of co-educational, K-12 schools promoted by the Nalanda Foundation (NF). The first school was started in 2005 at Hyderabad, India and the second one in 2006 at Indore.Since then the School chain has grown to eleven in 2010. Indus World Schools have come up at Gurgaon in the NCR, Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, Bhiwani in Haryana,Raipur, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad,Jalgaon in Maharashtra. New Indus World Schools are slated to come up in Hassan in Karnataka, Dharuhera in Haryana and a second school at Hyderabad.
The Indus World School was established by IIT and IIM alumni comprising of R. Satya Narayanan, Gautam Puri, Nikhil Mahajan, Sujith Bhattacharya, R. Srinivasan, D. Vijay Kumar and Shiv Kumar.
The USP of this school, according to Satya Narayanan R, founder and chairman of Career Launcher India Limited, is that students must love to come to school and that school must connect to the natural careers of the child by making the child realize her natural potential during the school years. Satya Narayanan argued that, "Students go for tuitions because they do not get proper coaching at their schools/colleges. Our school will, therefore, restrict students from taking tuition and if a student underperforms or is not satisfied with the teaching procedure, the parents can question the school teachers themselves."