Guided museum day tours for school groups

This business plans and runs one-day learning trips for school groups around the national museums and memorials of central New Delhi. You book entry slots, hire buses from licensed operators, give each group a trained guide who talks to children in Hindi and English, arrange a packed lunch, and hand teachers a simple worksheet for the class.

Much of what a school wants to show sits inside this district: the National War Memorial and India Gate, the Prime Ministers' museum and Nehru Planetarium at Teen Murti, the Rashtrapati Bhavan museum, and the National Rail Museum in Chanakyapuri. A school trip means bookings, buses, food and headcounts for one or two teachers. A firm that handles all of it, with a guide who can explain what the children are seeing, saves them that work.

You need GST registration, group accident insurance, police-verified guides and a first-aid kit on every bus. The hard parts are the short season, since most school trips happen in the cooler months before exams, and the rules at government sites: identity checks, banned items, limited slots and sudden closures, such as the roads around India Gate during Republic Day parade rehearsals in January.

Sell to principals and trip teachers in Delhi and neighbouring states, and ask happy teachers to recommend you to other schools.