–Lucknow, 4th December,2024: Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) launched its innovative digital road safety learning platform, E-Gurukul, in the esteemed presence of Shri Nitin Gadkari, Hon’ble Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Government of India. This initiative reaffirms HMSI’s commitment to fostering a culture of road safety in India.
The launch was also graced by the presence of key dignitaries from Honda – Mr. Vinay Dhingra (Senior Director – HR & Administration, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India; Trustee, Honda India Foundation), Mr. Katsuyuki Ozawa (Director – HR & Administration, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India) along with other senior officials from Honda and state government.
The E-Gurukul platform offers training modules tailored for three specific age groups, ensuring a comprehensive approach towards road safety education:
1. For age 5-8: 7-minute module
2. For age 9-15: 9-minute module
3. For age 16-18: 7-minute module
Currently the modules are available in multiple languages like Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, and English—to ensure inclusivity and regional relevance and E-Gurukul can be accessed at egurukul.honda.hmsi.in. The platform supports live streaming for Tier-1 cities, downloadable content for Tier-2 cities, and multilingual modules to ensure accessibility across diverse regions.
Commenting on the initiative, Mr. Vinay Dhingra, Senior Director – HR & Administration, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India; Trustee, Honda India Foundation, said, “Road safety is at the core of HMSI’s CSR vision. Through E-Gurukul, we aim to provide an easy access to road safety education modules that are developed for different age groups, specially to inculcate a positive mindset towards road safety at young age. These young road safety champions will not only be responsible road users but also inspire their parents and family to be one too. The launch of E-Gurukul is another step towards contributing to Honda’s global vision of zero traffic fatality by 2050.”
The launch of E-Gurukul is part of HMSI’s ongoing efforts to empower children, educators, and dealers to champion safe road practices. The initiative will expand to cover schools in every state, promoting road safety education tailored to different age groups. Any school interested to access this information can contact Safety.riding@honda.hmsi.in.
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India’s CSR commitment towards Road Safety:
In 2021, Honda announced its global vision statement for the year 2050 where it will strive for zero traffic collision fatalities involving Honda motorcycles and automobiles. In India HMSI is working in line with this vision and the Government of India’s direction of reducing fatalities to half by 2030.
One critical aspect of achieving this goal is developing a positive mindset towards road safety in our children by the year 2030 and continuing to educate them thereafter. Road safety education at schools and colleges is not only to create awareness but to introduce a road safety culture in young minds and transform them to become road safety ambassadors. It empowers future generations to become responsible and significantly contribute to a safer society.
HMSI wants to be a company that Society wants to exist and is strongly focusing on spreading Road safety awareness to all sections of society with unique ideas catering to each segment from school kids to corporates and society at large.
HMSI’s set of skilled safety instructors conduct daily programs at our 10 adopted traffic training parks (TTP) across India and 6 Safety Driving Education Centers (SDEC) to make road safety education accessible to every part of society, and the initiative has already reached over 8.5 million Indians.
