The Sikh Community in Kanpur has taken an initiative to teach historical learnings from Indian culture and the Gurmukhi language to Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha students.

Under this initiative, 52 Gurudwaras across the city will focus on imparting values, ethics, and morals to students from the Sikh community.

The women’s wing in the Sikh community is now going to organize classes for 30 to 40 students and teach them their mother tongue, i.e., Gurmukhi, to bring them closer to their culture and beliefs. A total of 15 days of special training will be given to the students.

This step has been taken in order to ensure that the kids from Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha do not forget their foundations, especially as the number of youngsters reading Gurmukhi is currently declining. Jasbir Kaur, President of the Sikh Community Women's Wing, explained that its objective is to strengthen children's foundations and to spread Gurmukhi to every household. By the new year, this initiative will be launched in collaboration with Sikh organizations at the state and national level.

Gurmukhi is the primary writing script (abugida) used to write the Punjabi language in India and record sacred Sikh scriptures "from the mouth of the Guru," reflecting its creation and spiritual connection to the Sikh Gurus.

Modern Gurmukhi is built upon 35 basic consonant/letter foundations (known as the paintī, meaning "thirty-five"), plus 6 additional consonants (Naveen Toli) created later to accommodate Persian and Arabic loanwords.