US and EU school vehicle safety standards, now in India.

Your child’s school ride, finally safe, comfortable and accountable.

Live tracking, verified drivers and safety-checked vehicles — plus WhatsApp updates at pickup, drop-off and whenever you need them. Everything designed to give parents complete peace of mind.

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A verified Bharat School Ride driver with ID badge, standing in front of a safety-fitted yellow school van with stop signs

Vehicle safety checks

Every vehicle must pass our safety checks
before it earns the right to carry your child.

No vehicle runs a Bharat School Ride van until it passes our physical safety inspection — and keeps passing it at periodic re-checks.

  • Fire extinguisher mounted beside the driver’s seat in an Eeco school van

    Fire extinguisher

    In-date and pressure-checked, mounted within the driver’s reach — not buried under a seat.

  • Bench seat in an Eeco school van with a working seat belt at every position

    Seat belts

    A working belt for every child on every seat — no sharing, no missing buckles.

  • Red first aid kit strapped to the seat back inside an Eeco school van

    First aid kit

    Fully stocked and in-date, with the driver trained on the basics before the route goes live.

  • Protective mesh guard fitted across the window of an Eeco school van

    Window harness

    Guards fitted on every window so no child can lean or reach out of a moving van.

  • Eeco school van with fold-out stop signs deployed on both sides and amber beacon on the roof

    Stop signs

    A fold-out stop signal that halts traffic every time children board or get down.

Driver safety checks

Every driver is carefully verified
before they’re trusted with your child.

A safe van needs a safe driver. Every Bharat School Ride driver is verified as a person, not just licensed as a driver — before the first ride, and for as long as they drive.

  • Bharat School Ride driver holding up his driving licence in front of his van

    Commercial licence

    A valid licence and clean driving record, verified with the RTO before onboarding.

  • Driver holding his police clearance certificate in front of his school van

    Police verification

    Background check through the local police station — no exceptions, no pending cases.

  • Driver holding up his Bharat School Ride photo ID badge on a lanyard

    Photo ID on every ride

    A Bharat School Ride badge you can match in the app, so you always know who’s driving.

  • Drivers in high-visibility vests at a child-safety training session, practising boarding drills beside a school van

    Child-safety training

    Trained in safe boarding and drops, evacuation drills and first-aid basics.

  • Yellow school van driving on an open road, its speed tracked from the driver’s app

    Monitored on every trip

    Speed and driving patterns tracked from the app — rash driving is flagged and acted on.

For parents

Even when you can’t be with them,
you’ll always know where they are.

Bharat School Ride is built for the only stakeholder who always cares — you. Not sold to schools. Not a GPS gadget for operators.

  • Live tracking screen in the parent app — the school van moving on the map between home and school, with ETA

    Live tracking of your child

    Watch the van move on the map in real time — from the driver’s phone, no extra hardware bolted onto the vehicle.

  • WhatsApp chat from Bharat School Ride with boarding, approaching and arrival alerts for the child’s ride

    WhatsApp alerts, not app-checking

    Boarding, approach and arrival messages come to you, where you already are.

  • Driver details screen — verified and trusted driver with identity, licence, police verification and training all marked verified

    Know who’s driving

    The driver’s photo, ID and verification status, right in the app — matched to the badge on their lanyard.

  • WhatsApp accident alert with the child’s status, van and driver details, and live location on a map

    Emergency response

    Accident alerts with live location, sent instantly to you and our response team.

  • Trip log screen — boarding, trip start, reached school and drop each marked on record, with complaint status assigned to a safety manager

    Accountability, on record

    Every trip, boarding and drop is logged. Complaints go to people whose job is to act on them — not into a school office drawer.

  • Driver and ride screen — star rating for the driver and a Change Driver button that assigns a new verified driver

    Rate or change your driver

    Rate the driver after any ride — and switch to another verified driver at any time, no questions asked.

Community workshops

Regular workshops on road safety
practices during the commute to school.

Every society we onboard gets recurring road-safety workshops — for parents and children. These are the practices we teach, and follow.

Road safety practices during commute to school — infographic covering six practices: supervise young children, use sidewalks, cross roads safely, board and disembark safely, be visible with reflective gear, and shared responsibility between parents, teachers and drivers

The daily reality

This is how children ride to school
today.

None of these photos are staged, and none of them are rare. They are ordinary school mornings — children on rooftops, vans pushed to a start.

Children seated in the back of a school van directly above a large LPG gas cylinder
An LPG cylinder rides along, right under the children.
More than a dozen students riding on the roof and hanging off the back of a yellow school jeep
When the seats run out, the roof is seating too.
Rear window of a school van completely filled with children pressed against the glass
One Omni, filled to the window glass.
Four schoolboys in uniform pushing their school van from behind to get it started
When the van won’t start, the children push.
School auto-rickshaw with schoolbags hanging off the sides and a child squeezed against the open doorway
Bags hang outside so more children fit inside.
School van driver talking on his phone while driving, backpacks piled on the roof rack
Driver on the phone, no seatbelts in sight.
Schoolgirls boarding a white van that is already visibly full of children
Boarding a van already past its limit.
Black and yellow auto-rickshaw overflowing with schoolchildren and bags spilling out of the open sides
Autos built for three adults, carrying ten children.

The problem

Today, no one answers for
your child’s ride to school.

India’s largest study of school commutes — 18,000+ parents and children surveyed — found a system where nobody answers to the parent and nobody cares about your child’s safety.

What children face on the road

30% Witnessed a crash

30% of children witnessed a crash during their commute to school

11,168 Deaths rising

11,168 children under 18 died on Indian roads in 2019 — up 7.4% in a year

2% Permanently disabled

2% of injured children are likely to be left permanently disabled

What they ride in

72% No seatbelts

72% of school vans have no seatbelts

52% No speed monitoring system

52% of vehicles have no speed monitoring system.

49% No safety tools

49% of school vehicles carry no first-aid kit or fire extinguisher

And nobody answers for it

54% No accountability

54% of safety complaints to school authorities led to no action at all.

52% No safety education

52% of parents say their school never held a single road-safety workshop

26% Rash driving

About 26% of the children using privately arranged vehicles claimed that the child complained about rash driving by the driver.

How it works

Four steps to a safer school run.

  1. Get your invite

    Early access is invite-only. Join the waitlist and we will reach out to you.

  2. Your van upgraded — or a verified van assigned

    Already have a van? We fit it out to US/EU school-vehicle safety standards — seatbelts, first-aid, fire safety, speed monitoring — free. Want a new one? We assign a verified, safety-fitted van on your route.

  3. Every driver trained and verified

    Keep the driver you know — they’re verified (licence, background) and trained in child-safety protocols. Get a new van, and its driver has already cleared the same bar. Either way, no one is trusted with your child before proving it.

  4. Track every ride, relax

    Your child boards, you get a WhatsApp message. Van approaches home, you get another. You watch the whole ride live — every single day.

Testimonials

Loved by parents.

Real words from real school runs.

  • “The WhatsApp message when Aarav boards is the best part of my morning. I stopped calling the driver five times a day.”
    PriyaGreen Meadows Society
  • “First van I’ve seen with a working seatbelt for every child — and they actually check them. That alone was worth the switch.”
    RohitPalm Grove Residency
  • “I watched the whole ride live on my phone for the first week. Now I just wait for the drop alert. Total peace of mind.”
    SunithaLakeview Enclave
  • “Our driver is verified, polite and always on time. My daughter says the van feels like the school buses in the movies.”
    ImranMaple Heights
  • “The road-safety workshop they held in our society changed how every parent here thinks about the school run.”
    KavyaSilver Oak Society
  • “We switched from a private van with fourteen kids crammed in. Same fee, half the crowd, and I can see the van on the map.”
    DeepakSunrise Towers
  • “When the van ran ten minutes late, I already knew why and exactly where it was. No panic calls, no guessing.”
    MeeraOrchid Residency
  • “They verified the driver’s licence, police record and the van’s fitness before day one. That’s the standard every parent should demand.”
    ArjunCasa Grande
  • “My son used to wait alone at the gate. Now the app tells me exactly when to send him down. Small thing, huge relief.”
    AnjaliEmerald Court
  • “The accident alert feature is what sold me. Hopefully we never need it, but knowing it’s there changes everything.”
    VikramRegency Park
  • “Three years of chasing van drivers on calls. One month of Bharat School Ride and I forgot that stress existed.”
    FarahCrystal Springs
  • “Tracking runs from the driver’s phone, so there’s no device anyone can quietly switch off. It just works, both ways, every day.”
    NikhilGolden Palms
  • “Our society’s WhatsApp group went from complaint threads to parents recommending routes. That says it all.”
    ShreyaWindsor Court
  • “I checked the van myself after the workshop — fire extinguisher, first aid kit, window guards. Everything they promised was there.”
    ManojHeritage Enclave
  • “Pickup alert, drop alert, and a live map in between. Even my mother tracks the ride from another city.”
    DivyaPearl Residency
  • “Fair pay for the driver, a safer ride for my kid, the same monthly fee. I don’t see why anyone would go back.”
    RahulSpringfield Society

Early access

Get your invite.

We’re onboarding a limited number of parents at this time. Leave your details and we’ll reach out to you.

Every school morning, you hand over the most precious part of your life. You shouldn’t have to spend the day worrying until they’re home again. Join Bharat School Ride — for safer journeys and complete peace of mind.

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