New Delhi, Feb 25:  Bharti Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of Bharti Enterprises, today launched 'Bharti Scholarship Scheme' in 30 premier institutions across the country.

The 'Bharti Scholarship Scheme' will help academically bright students, who are pursuing higher education but have limited financial resources for the same.

It aims at assisting such students in becoming professionally or technically qualified.

As part of its scholarship scheme, the Bharti Foundation today awarded scholarships to seven students from various institutes of management and engineering in Delhi and the NCR.

This scheme is specially targeted at students pursuing higher education in management, engineering and agriculture.

Bharti Foundation has shortlisted scholars from the institutes on merit-cum-means basis. The aim of the program is to provide quality education to the deserving students.

Bharti Foundation undertakes projects primarily in the area of education. Under its Satya Bharti School Program, the Foundation is setting up village-based primary schools for underprivileged children across the country.

Bharti Foundation is also running several other education programs in the area of education - Bharti Computers Centres and Bharti Libraries for disadvantaged children and Bharti Scholarships for higher education.

It has set up the Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management at IIT-Delhi to develop young telecom Leaders and has also undertaken many such related projects.

UNI