Bharti | Free Education in India

1. WELCOME TO BHARTI FOUNDATION BHARTI FOUNDATION, the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises was established in 2000 with a vision "To help underprivileged children and young people of our country realize their potential". BHARTI FOUNDATION, is an organization established under the Laws of India with charitable status pursuant to a "Deed of Trust".(Read More)

2. Free Education in India BhartiAirtel Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Bharti(Airtel) Enterprises that provides free and quality education to Underprivileged children from marginalised groups in India through its flagship rural education initiative - The SatyaBharti School Program in Punjab, India.

3. Rural Free Education Rural Education - Education in India is provided by public schools and private schools. Under various articles of the Indian Constitution. rural children by providing affordable, high-quality education. ... of students on free education through donations from our scholarship program.

4. SATYA BHARTI LEARNING CENTRE PROGRAM • SatyaBharti Learning Centre Program was started in 2013, with the aim of identifying and mainstreaming Out-of-School Children at primary level, in the rural areas of India, by offering remedial/ bridge courses in collaboration with the Government. • As part of the program, children in remote villages, who had never been to school or had dropped-out were identified and admitted in Government schools. Compensatory education to these children was provided to bridge the learning gaps such that they could get absorbed in age-appropriate grades. • The success of this program can be credited to the joint and collaborative action of the Foundation, government, community partners and teachers at different levels of its functioning. It achieved what it set out for - to create and bring the Out-of-School Children into the mainstream and offer them equal opportunity through quality education, free of charge. As the program gets integrated into the SatyaBharti Quality Support Program, the endeavors to reform and contribute to the rural education will continue, as part of the latter.(Read More)

5. HIGHER EDUCATION • Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management at IIT Delhi • Bharti Centre for Communication, IIT Bombay • Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business • Manmohan Singh Bursary Fund • Partnership with University of Cambridge

6. SATYA BHARTI SCHOOL PROGRAM • Bharti Foundation’s flagship initiative, the SatyaBharti School Program provides free quality education to several first generation learners in rural India. The program, with a special focus on the girl child, aims to deliver transformative education to children so that they become educated, responsible and self-reliant citizens with a deep sense of commitment to their society. • Activities within and outside the classrooms are given equal importance so that students learn for life and from life; thereby inculcating in them the right values, attitudes, life-skills and confidence. Parents, community and like-minded organisations are active partners in the schools and all the SatyaBharti Schools uphold this way of functioning.(Read More)

7. SATYA BHARTI QUALITY SUPPORT PROGRAM • The SatyaBharti Quality Support Program is a school-based program which aims to improve the overall schooling experience for the students as well as the teachers by bringing in mainly co-scholastic activities as well as support for scholastic work at schools if needed. It complements Government’s programs to improve learning levels by creating institutions where all stakeholders including parents are involved in creating a change for the better. While the SatyaBharti Quality Support Program’s framework is fairly structured around the whole-school approach, it is for each school to decide on the speed and trajectory dependent on the School leader’s vision, with Bharti Foundation playing the role of a catalyst.(Read More)

8. Bharti Foundation's unique education program mainstreams 33,816 Out-of-School Children • A sizeable proportion of the population of the children, especially in rural areas, of the country still remains Out-of-School. SatyaBharti Learning Centre Program was instituted in 2013 to augment the objective of universal primary education and SSA. The program had been running in close collaboration with Educate a Child, a global program of the Education Above All Foundation which has the objective of significantly reducing the number of Out-of-School Children (OOSC) worldwide at the primary school level. • The program team identified and mainstreamed Out-of-School Children in the rural areas of Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand at primary level, by offering tailored remedial/ bridge courses in collaboration with the government to bring the Out-of-School Children back to school and offer them equal opportunity through quality education. • As part of the program, children in remote villages, who had never been to school or drop-out children were identified and admitted in government schools. Compensatory education to these children was provided to bridge the learning gaps in order that they are absorbed in age-appropriate grades. (Read More)

9. Jharkhand students receive International Award for teaching all mothers in the community • Government school students who started ‘Mother’s Literacy’ campaign in Jharkhand’s villages are rewarded with the prestigious Gold Award in Group category in “The 2019 Pramerica - the Spirit of Community Awards” for their initiative. The students are from UMS Khairbani School, Kathikund, (Dumka), Jharkhand • This campaign was selected among nearly 3,500 entries nationwide. The annual award conferred by Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, United States recognizes school students for making a positive difference. These awards are also organized in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, China, Brazil and Poland. • Under the ‘Mother’s Literacy Campaign’, the students identified illiterate women in the village and taught them Hindi alphabets, enabling them to write their names and other simple words, along with basic numerical ability. In the year 2018 alone, the initiative succeeded in making 60 households, (out of nearly 85 household) functionally literate in the village.(Read More)

10. Technology In Rural Schools • We are already in the eighteenth year of the 21st Century. And, while there is high level of acceptability of the role technology can play in school education; the questions around what technology to use and when; or, how to overcome the issues of accessibility and under-representation especially in the rural parts of the country continue to take up our mind space. • Working with the 254 village-based SatyaBharti Schools of Bharti Foundation, along with over 2000 Government schools in the deep rural parts of our country has given me some amount of understanding about the challenges our rural schools, teachers and students face on ground. It has also made me closely experience the role education and technology can play in students’ life, beyond academic milestones. Equity in education is paramount and it should help every child reach her or his potential and become a contributing citizen of the country. How does one ensure that every village school provides quality education to its students; or provides access to student-centric technology programs that enable learning as a game; or, helps navigate complex topics using videos or allows personalized learning at one’s pace. Schools must become a hub of technology that starts to dissolve the digital divide especially for those millions of children who do not have to access to technology at home. The problem of accessibility, at times, becomes more complex with the aspects related to gender, available infrastructure and other social issues.(Read More)