Bharti Airtel Foundation Scholarship Program Supports Engineering Students to Fulfill their Career Dream
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In a grand effort to mark the completion of 25 years of operation in the country and to dedicate itself to the nation, Bharti Airtel Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises, today launched the ‘Bharti Airtel Scholarship Program’. The new merit-cum-means scholarship is exclusively aimed at encouraging deserving students belonging to diverse socio-economic backgrounds, and there is a big thrust behind empowering female students, the foundation unveiled with great enthusiasm.Also, it is opened for such undergraduate aspirants of Engineering in Technology- related streams and integrated programs of five years, including all the top 50 colleges according to NIRF. Another requirement for eligibility is that a candidate’s family annual family income should be less than 8.5 lakh. This step makes sure that underprivileged students are not denied their right to a good education due to high dropout levels.
With a base of 250 students in the first cohort, the program is expected to grow exponentially from the coming years. The foundation visualizes this reach extended to 4,000 scholars, investing over ₹100 crore per year as the program reaches maturity. A giant expansion that seeks to impact the number of students’ lives, equipping them with the resources necessary to rise to academic excellence and actualize their dreams.The selected applicants will benefit from the Bharti Airtel Scholarship Program, in which they get all-round support for their academic journey. Actually, the program caters for 100% of the college fees for the whole course in college, and we know that financial issues should not be a barrier or a hindrance to one’s educational aspirations.
Moreover, the beneficiaries will receive a laptop in order to access, peruse, and review the immense resource of the digital world. The scholarship includes hostel and mess fees, because the environment it provides is conducive and comfortable for the study process. Bharti Airtel Foundation completes 25 years of its extraordinary journey, Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice-Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, and Co-Chairman, Bharti Airtel Foundation, said, “The foundation’s educational initiatives have made a significant difference in the lives of over 6 million people, and we take immense pride in this fact.”. With the launch of the Bharti Airtel Scholarship Program, the foundation reiterates its commitment to make students with very diverse socio-economic backgrounds, most especially female students. By making this opportunity available to them, the foundation wants them to step up to academic excellence, to have a wonderful tool in their possession, and have all their dreams come true with it so as to make a brighter future for themselves.
The launch of the Bharti Airtel Scholarship Program is a testimony to our unwavering commitment to social progress and the transformable power of education. This pioneering initiative is going to empower and give opportunity to worthy students to never let financial constraints be a hindrance to their dreams of becoming confident, skilled, and ambitious engineers who build our nation. It is in the unwavering commitment of the Bharti Airtel Foundation to educational empowerment that the ray of hope for a more inclusive and prosperous society emanates.
