Bharti Infratel Scholarship Program for North East
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Bharti Infratel Scholarship Program
Bharti Infratel awards Scholarships to 127 differently abled students
Scholarship provides much needed support to deserving students from eight Northeastern States

New Delhi/Guwahati, 17th August 2016: Bharti Infratel, one of the largest telecom tower infrastructure providers in the country, today awarded scholarships to 127 differently abled students from eight Northeastern States.

The recognition of selected differently abled students with 'Bharti Infratel Scholarship Program' is a result of Bharti Infratel’s partnership with Shishu Sarothi, a non-profit organization based in Assam which was announced earlier in March this year.

The primary objective of the Program is to provide financial support and aid the differently abled students for pursuing professional or technical education, which in turn will help them get employment ready, and thus self-reliant. The scholarship program is designed to benefit students across all eight states of the Northeast viz: Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Meghalaya.

To identify deserving candidates, a six-member selection committee was formed under the guidance of Phanindra Jidung, Director, Higher Education, Government of Assam.

Announcing the scholarship, D S Rawat, MD & CEO, Bharti Infratel Limited, said, “I am hopeful that this program will benefit deserving students in a great way. I wish each one of these students the very best in realizing their ambitions.”

Bharti Infratel also supports ‘Bharti Foundation’ in providing free and quality education to underprivileged children in rural India through the ‘Satya Bharti School Program’ and improving the rural sanitation in Punjab under the ‘Satya Bharti Abhiyan’ which develops sanitation facilities in Government schools by building toilets for girls in the region, where no such facilities exist.

About Bharti Infratel:

Bharti Infratel is India’s leading provider of telecom tower and related infrastructure. It deploys, owns and manages telecom towers and communication structures, for various mobile operators. The company’s consolidated portfolio of over 88,000 telecom towers, which includes over 38,500 of its own towers and the balance from its 42% equity interest in Indus Towers, makes it one of the largest tower infrastructure providers in the country with presence in all 22 telecom circles. The three leading wireless telecommunications service providers in India by revenue - Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular - are the largest customers of Bharti Infratel. The Company has been the industry pioneer in adopting green energy initiatives for its operations.

In partnership with Bharti Foundation, it also provides free education to underprivileged children through 254 schools in rural areas in six states of India. Its programs (Satya Bharti School Program, Satya Bharti Learning Centres, and Satya Bharti Quality Support Program) presently reach out to around one lakh children from socially and economically challenged backgrounds, with special focus on the girl child. So far more than 14000 individual household toilets and toilet blocks for girls have been built in 14 schools, where no such facilities existed.

Bharti Infratel also promotes initiatives for providing vocational skills and creating livelihood opportunities for underprivileged women living in urban slums and has also been very focused on providing safe water infrastructure in marginalized urban schools across several cities.

About Shishu Sarothi:

Shishu Sarothi is a registered non-profit voluntary organization, based in Assam, founded in the year 1987. Shishu Sarothi came into being due to the lack of services and rehabilitative measures available for people with disabilities. The organization aimed at filling this void by constructively proving support and assistance.