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ARJUN RAY

LT. GEN. PVSM, VSM (Retd), CEO, Indus Trust, Bangalore

S oldier-scholar and celebrated five-star general of the Indian Army, Arjun Ray is the archi-
tect and driving force of the nationally reputed Indus group of 14 education institutions, in-
cluding three top-ranked Indus International schools affiliated with the International Baccalaureate
(Geneva) examinations board, and eight Indus Early Learning Centres. In 2002, after an illustrious
career span of 38 years in the Indian Army, Gen. Ray took premature retirement to roll out the state-
of-the-art pioneer Indus International School, Bangalore aka Bengaluru (IIS-B). Since then, under his
leadership, IIS-B has matured into India’s premier international day-cum-boarding school, ranked #1
countrywide for the past eight years in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR).

Moreover during the past two decades, Gen. Ray has strategised the promotion of two more IB-af-
filiated Indus International schools in Pune and Hyderabad – ranked among India’s Top 10 day-
cum-boarding international schools in EWISR 2019-20 — and eight Indus Early Learning Centres
in Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, and Belgaum (also ranked among the Top 10 preschools in the EW
India Preschool Rankings 2019-20); the Indus International Community School (estb. 2010), a free-
of-charge school for children from below poverty line households; School of Leadership (2010),
and the Indus Training and Research Institute (2008). Total enrolment in all these institutions: 4,000
children and 520 teachers.

“Dousing the fires of insurgency in Ladakh through the promotion of schools proved to be a
life-changing experience for me. I became acutely aware that the greatest challenge confronting
the country was to prepare children for the unfolding fourth industrial revolution and emerging
global market. Therefore the objective of all Indus Trust schools is to provide all-round world-class
education in enabling environments to shape life-long learners nurtured to meet the complex ex-
istential challenges of the 21st century,” says Ray, under whose command IIS-B has been ranked #1
on the parameter of leadership quality in the annual EWISR for four years (2014-17) consecutively.