1. CSR Activities
Trust /
Bharti Foundation
CSR
CSR Areas 1. Children
2. Community Welfare
3. Disaster Relief
4. Education
5. Energy
6. Environment
7. Girl Child
8. Healthcare
9. Poverty Eradication
10. Rural Development
11. Vocational Training
Three main 1. Education
CSR activities 2. Community Welfare
3. Environment
.
Taking everybody along
Community participation and involvement continues to be an integral part of the Satya Bharti School
Program. Our efforts at making community an essential part of our operations have not only earned us
respect, support and buy-in from opinion leaders, but have also started contributing to future growth of
the community.
Direct involvement of community in school activities is undertaken in the programs. 1,400 community
volunteers signed up to take classes during the summer camp held in June 2009. They took sessions in
local arts and crafts, storytelling and music. Community members also volunteer their services for other
school related activities.
Skills beyond Books
The Satya Bharti Schools have turned into mini ITIs where children are learning about other important
skills like Carpentry, Tailoring, Gardening, Dancing and Farming from local talent and resources.
-- Nathu Ram Choudhary, Sarpanch
Jati Bhandu, Rajasthan
Design for Giving
Social issues in the community are getting addressed through Community Development Programs.
2,100 children across 91 Satya Bharti Schools participated in the Design for Giving contest. They
undertook various campaigns in their own communities like girl child awareness rallies, combating global
warming, literacy drives, health and hygiene drives, drug abuse, environment, campaigns against child
marriage etc.
The most effective amongst these campaigns the “Campaign against Child Marriage” was undertaken by

2. 32 students of the Satya Bharti School in Lordi Dejgara, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Ushering in a bright future
Bharti Foundation has partnered with premier institutes like the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in
2000 to set up the Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management, IIT Delhi. 200
students are supported every year to pursue courses in the field of telecommunications.
The Bharti Scholarship and Mentorship program has also been instituted to support academically brilliant
students from financially weak backgrounds. Under this program Bharti Foundation has also partnered
with Udayan Care to support the Udayan Shalini Fellowship Program. Currently 232 scholars are being
supported under the Bharti Scholarship and Mentorship Program.
The Bharti Centre for Entrepreneurial Initiatives set up in 2000 as a joint initiative with the
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) promotes, develops and facilitates
entrepreneurship and works towards encouraging entrepreneurship among young individuals.
ACT – A Caring Touch
ACT- A Caring Touch is the Company‟s Employee Philanthropy Program which encourages employees
as well as their families to donate their time, skills, knowledge, materials and money to either Bharti
Foundation or other charities empanelled under the ACT Program. The program provides a common
platform to all employees by providing them total freedom and flexibility to contribute towards causes of
other NGOs like CRY, Helpage India, SOS Children‟s Villages of India, Cancer Aid and Research
Foundation, National Association for the Blind, etc
Beyond Corporate Life
Employee volunteering is an important component of the ACT –Employee Philanthropy Program.
Employees across the organisation are encouraged to visit any charity of their choice and spend a day
away from rigorous office schedules and deadlines. The program has been set up to inspire people to
volunteer for charitable causes and also help create opportunities among employees to support a cause
by donating their time, skills, knowledge and money
Disaster Relief and Support
Bharti Airtel has a nation-wide presence that has grown at an exponential rate in the recent years. Each
local office undertakes special programs for the local community, thereby touching their lives directly.
From time to time various initiatives like material collection, tree plantation, adoption of old age homes
and orphanages, blood donation camps, etc are undertaken for the welfare of fellow beings in need.
Think Green
Bharti Airtel is committed towards taking steps to protect environment either by direct initiatives or
conserving the by-products to reduce fossil fuel consumption.
We have been running power saving programs in our offices and on network operations for over 5 years
now. These programs help in reducing costs and our carbon footprint. Airtel has pioneered the Green
Shelter concept for BTS.

3. The solution reduces operational costs by as much as 40% as compared to conventional shelters and
avoids being a cause of global warming, as the greenhouse gas emissions are minimal.
Green IT has been a focus area at Airtel and has been a key in all IT decisions and strategies which
includes IT infrastructure at our office buildings & data centers.
Initiatives have been taken to reduce paper in the day to day working operations both for internal as well
as external customers. Processes are introduced to enable paperless workflow based methodologies
and approval mechanisms within the Company.
The Company uses electrical equipments with high energy efficiency and low anti environment
emissions. This is a key factor while procuring any electrical equipment. Initiatives like use of water
based chilling unit at new data centers for cooling instead of gas based are helping in protecting the
environment and depletion of ozone layer.
Bharti Airtel is associated with The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP); an organisation based in UK which
works with shareholders and corporations to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions of major
corporations. From past three years we have been constantly measuring our carbon footprint.
Waste Management
Bharti Airtel has been able to reduce office waste by introducing simple but effective practices like
printing only when necessary, double sided printing & photocopying and sending documents
electronically.
Bharti Airtel undertook a dramatic transformation in work processes which has delivered powerful
dividends in terms of environmental friendliness. These initiatives have managed to save approx
600,000 sheets of paper every year.
Bharti Airtel has in place a recycling and waste management program to support the environment which
also provides significant cost saving for the organisation in long term. Bharti Airtel carefully planned a
coordinated approach with full support of the management & employees.
Bharti Airtel is in the process of finalising its Environment/Health & Safety Policy (EHS) and will apply for
„ISO 14001 compliance‟ within the next three years for each of its facilities.
The Company constantly explores for new and innovative ways of reducing the consumption of natural
resources, with the aim of leaving a better and greener earth for generations to come.
Farmer Welfare
Bharti Airtel believes that the real India lives in its villages and our rapid rural penetration enables us to
impact the lives of farmers.
The Company has been working with farmers‟ co-operative society IFFCO to provide farmers with vital
information around weather, mandi prices, agronomy, horticulture, forestry, government schemes, etc.
This is managed through our joint venture with IFFCO called IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL).
Customer Welfare
Airtel has also been instrumental in changing 2 lakh lives by infusing confidence amongst rural India by
offering the Speak English service. The service offers lessons in spoken English using real life scenarios
like how to greet people, how to talk to women, how to interact in an interview etc. and has specifically

4. benefited many housewives & job seeking youth.