New Delhi, Apr 16: Manzil Mystics, in partnership with Casio India, launched its Mobile Music Bus Program at the historic Gandhi Smriti, New Delhi, marking a significant step towards making music education accessible, joyful, and sustainable for children and young musicians across India.
Building on the recent launch of the Learning Through Music Fellowship in Patna , this initiative expands the partnership into an innovative Bus Music model, designed to take safe and happy music classrooms directly to children in underserved communities.
The Mobile Music Bus will reach 3,000 children in Delhi and 2,000 children in Patna, while also creating digital educational music content to impact over 10,000 children across India within this academic year. Designed as a moving classroom, studio, and performance space, the Bus Music model builds on Manzil Mystics’ earlier mobile studio innovations that demonstrated how music can enable both learning and emotional wellbeing .
About the Mobile Music Bus
The Mobile Music Bus is India’s first Mobile Music Classroom and Recording Studio, a first-of-its-kind innovation conceptualized and built by the team at Manzil Mystics. Designed as a 3-in-1 creative space, the bus integrates a fully functional music classroom/jampad, a high-quality recording studio, and a performance stage, enabling children and young musicians to learn, create, and showcase their talent within the same ecosystem. Equipped with power backup, the bus can run seamlessly for up to 8 hours without electricity, making it highly adaptable for low-resource environments. This innovative model directly addresses the infrastructure gap by reaching 25 schools and 10 communities monthly, ensuring access to music education where it is needed the most. Currently, Manzil Mystics operates two such Mobile Music Buses in Delhi, expanding the reach of safe, joyful, and expressive learning spaces for children. Special thanks to M.K Sharma Ji for making the idea to life who is the chief architect of the bus. Under his leadership, this innovation was Fabricated in the hearts of Delhi. M.K Sharma ji is an expert of designing Mobile Solutions.
Responsible CSR Driving Systemic Change
This partnership reflects the growing role of responsible CSR in enabling long-term, scalable impact. By investing in music education and youth skilling, Casio is contributing to a future where arts are not an extracurricular privilege, but a fundamental part of learning.
Aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2023, the initiative strengthens experiential learning, socio-emotional development, and creative expression in classrooms.
At the same time, the program contributes to India’s Orange Economy (Creative Economy) by equipping young musicians with skills in music facilitation, production, and performance creating sustainable pathways into the creative sector.
The partnership focuses on four core pillars:
Education | Livelihood | Skilling | Arts & Culture
A Meaningful Launch at Gandhi Smriti
The launch event, hosted at Gandhi Smriti, was graced by:
• Chief Guest: Shri Vijay Goel Ji, Former Union Minister & Vice Chairman, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti (GSDS)
• Guest of Honor: Mr. Akira Watanabe, Director, Casio
• Guest of Honor: Shri Sanjeet Kumar, Director, GSDS
• Special Guest: Shri Gurmeet Singh Ji, Legal & CSR Head
• Special Guest: Neeraj Chaudhary, Founder CEO Guru Jasram Foundation
The event brought together children from communities, Learning Through Music Fellows, and the Manzil Mystics ensemble, who presented a deeply moving musical performance, celebrating the transformative power of music in education.
The evening was also dedicated as a tribute to the legendary Asha Bhosle Ji, honoring her timeless contribution to Indian music.
“Music makes illness retreat.” — Asha Bhosle
This sentiment reflects the very intention of the Bus Music program: to create spaces where children can feel, express, and belong using music as a bridge between learning and life.
Expanding the Possibility of Music in Education
The Mobile Music Bus is more than an innovation in delivery it is a systemic solution to the infrastructure and trained educators in arts education. By integrating physical outreach with digital content, the program ensures both depth and scale.
Through this partnership, Manzil Mystics and Casio are not just enabling access they are reimagining how music can live within classrooms, communities, and careers.
As India moves towards a more holistic vision of education, collaborations like this demonstrate how corporates, nonprofits, and cultural institutions can come together to build an ecosystem where every child has access to music not just as an art form, but as a tool for learning, healing, and growth.
