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100% college fee covered with a provisi on of laptop for all Bharti Scholars

Bharti Airtel Foundation launches ‘Bharti Airtel Scholarship Program’

An ambition to empower 4000 students wit h an outlay of ₹ 100+ crannually

Featuring top 9 colleges of Tamil Nadu as per the NIRF Ranking 2023 (Engineering)

100% college fee covered with a provision of laptop for all Bharti Scholars

To benefit students enrolled in under grad uate (UG)/Integrated Tech courses in Top 50 NIRF (Engineering) colleges

Scholarship will be provided to students wi th an annual family income not excee ding ₹ 8.5 lacs

The first batch will support 250 students, commemorating 25 years of the Bharti Ai rtel Foundation

Chennai, 16th July 2024: Bharti Airtel Fou ndation, the philanthropic arm of Bharti Ent erprises, is commemorating its 2 5 years wi th the launch of a prestigious ‘Bharti Airtel Scholarship Program’. This merit-cum-me ans based Scholarship Pr ogram aims to su pport deserving studen ts from diverse so cio-economic backgro unds with a focus on girl students, purs uing Technology-based Engineering UG and integrated programs (u p to 5 years) in the top 50 National Instituti onal Rank ing Framework (NIRF) (Engine eri ng) col leges, including IIT Madras, National Ins titute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Vell ore Institute of Technology, Anna Unive rsi ty, S.R.M. Institute of Science and Tec hnol ogy, Shanmugha Arts Science Techn ology & Research Academy, Kalasalingam Acade my of Research and Educa tio n, Sri Sivasu bramaniya Nadar College of Engineering a nd others. This will be appl icable to stude nts eligible for admi ssion s in August 2024. Starting this year with 250 students, the Pr ogram is designed to scale up incrementa lly with its succe ssful implementation thro ugh each coh ort. The ambition is to expand reach to 4,000 scholars with an outlay of ₹ 100+ cr per year as the Program reaches its peak.

The fully funded scholarship is envisage d to dissolve the financial barriers that hind er access to quality education for me ritorio us students, especially from disad vantaged backgrounds. The scholarship will be provid ed to students with an ann ual family incom e not exceeding ₹ 8.5 la cs. The Bharti Airt el Scholarships will fo cus on UG and integr ated courses in fiel ds of Electronics & Com munication, Tel ecom, Information Technol ogy, Comput er Sciences, Data Sciences, an d Emergin g Technologies (AI, IoT, AR/VR, Machine Learning, Robotics) at the top 50 NIRF (Engineering) colleges.

Recipients of this scholarship will be know n as ‘Bharti Scholars’. They will receive 10 0% of their college fees throughout the dura tion of their course and will also be given a laptop. Additionally, hostel an d mess fees shall be given to all eligible students who apply for it. With an under lying philosophy to ensure that the bene fits accrued through enabling access to quality higher education remain perenn ial, Bharti Scholars will be en couraged to support at least 1 student on a contin uous basis, voluntarily, once they gr aduate & are subsequently gainfully employ ed. This transformative, enduring initiat ive will shape lives and enable the youth to part ake in the economic opportuniti es and gro wth of India.

Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice Chairman of Bhar ti Enterprises and Co-Chairman of Bharti Ai rtel Foundation said, “As we ref lect on the last 25 years, the Bharti Airt el Foundation is proud to have touched 6 million+ lives th rough our educational initiatives. With this pioneering Bharti Airtel Scholarship Progra m, we are expa nding our commitment to e mpower stu dents from diverse socio-econ omic back grounds, particularly girl studen ts, to achieve academic excellence and pur sue their dreams. We firmly believe that edu cation is the cornerstone of societal pro gre ss and economic empowerment. The select ed institutes have always showca sed a con fluence of exemplary learning and access ible education to students ac ross different strata. Our endeavour is t o strengthen thes e tenets in Indian acad emia, towards nurtu ring professionals e quipped to handle the dynamic evolutio n of the technological lan dscape of tom orrow.”

More details about the Bharti Airtel Schola rship Program can be found on the website:

https://bhartifoundation.org/ bharti-airtel-scholarship /

About Bharti Airtel Foundation

Bharti Airtel Foundation was set up in the year 2000 as the philanthropic arm of Bhar ti Enterprises with a vision, ‘To help under privileged children and youth of our country realize their potential.’ The Foundation work s in the space of holisti c quality education in rural India with a special focus on the girl child; and also s upports Higher Education programs in partnership with premier insti tu tions. S ince 2006, the flagship, Satya B harti School Program has been providing free q uality education to thousands of un der privileged children in 164 schools in rur al India across four states. At present ne arly 36,000 children are enrolled in Satya Bharti Schools of which over 50% are girls. The impact of quality education ha s been widened by transferring the lear ning and good practices of this program to more th an 3.7 lakh students studying in 880 partne ring government schools a cross 12 State s/UTs, through Quality Su pport Program (QSP), since 2013. In ad dition, Bharti Airtel Foundation was in vited by several educa ti on officers at di strict and state level to scal e up some of the initiatives through QSP St ate Partn erships. Bharti Abhiyan, the sanit ation initiative, from 2014 till 2021, has be ne fitted over 2 lakh beneficiaries by impr oving sanitation conditions in the distri cts of Punjab, providing access to toilets and by fostering behavioural change in commu nities. The Foundation has been able to imp act over 3 million children in a meaningful manner throughits educat ion programs sin ce inception.

www.bhartiairtelfoundation.org