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Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
Through the Bharti Foundation, which was launched in 2000, Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, advances his belief that quality education is the most important tool for social and economic development. Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business groups, has interests in telecom, agribusiness, retail, and financial services. The group’s flagship company, Bharti Airtel, ranks as the world’s fourth-largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers.
In 2006, the Bharti Foundation started the Satya Bharti School Program to help underprivileged children, especially girls, by providing free quality education through a network of village schools. The program also involves partnerships with state governments in India to adopt and run government-managed schools. Currently, 254 are operational under the program, benefitting more than 39,000 children.
“We need to ensure that India’s children have access to quality education to help them realize their true potential,” says Mittal. The foundation has also set up specialized centers for higher education and research, such as the Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management, the Bharti Centre for Communication, and the Bharti Institute of Public Policy.
(Published April 2014)
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