Bharti Airtel Foundation aims to support deserving students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, with a focus on girl students, to become future technology leaders. To achieve this goal, a merit-cum-means based scholarship program has been designed for students enrolled in technology based engineering undergraduate (UG) courses and 5-year integrated programs (as per the eligibility criteria) in the top 50 NIRF Engineering institutes. The students receiving the scholarship shall be called Bharti Scholars.
The fully funded scholarship is envisaged to eliminate financial barriers that hinder access to quality education to meritorious students. It covers 100% annual fees over the duration of the course, including meal & accommodation charges. A laptop will also be provided to all Bharti Scholars in the first year.
About Bharti Airtel Foundation
Bharti Airtel Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises, was set up in the year 2000 with a vision ‘To help underprivileged children and youth of our country realize their potential.’ The Foundation works in the space of holistic quality education in rural India with a special focus on the girl child; and also supports Higher Education programs in partnership with premier institutions. Since 2006, the flagship Satya Bharti School Program has been providing free quality education to thousands of underprivileged children in 164 schools in rural India across four states.
At present nearly 36,000 children are enrolled in Satya Bharti Schools of which over 50% are girl students. The impact of quality education has been widened by transferring the learning and good practices of this program to more than 3.7 lakh students studying in 888 partnering government schools across 12 States/UTs, through the Quality Support Program (QSP), since 2013.
In addition, Bharti Airtel Foundation was invited by several education officers at district and state level to scale up some of the initiatives through QSP State Partnerships. The Foundation has been able to impact over 3 million children in a meaningful manner through its education programs since inception.
