Bharti Airtel has awarded 33 scholarships to students in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Awarded as part of a performance-based recognition and engagement program for Airtel retailers –the Navratna little Stars Scholarship is a special scholarship program for the children of the retailers. 6 students from Bhopal, 2 students from Raipur, 4 students from Indore, 1 student from Jabalpur, 2 students from Satna, 8 students from Gwalior and 10 students from Ratlam were given the scholarship. Girls led with 28 scholarships against 5 held by boys. An amount of Rs12,000 was given to the guardians of each winning student as the scholarship amount.
Under the scholarship program, the Airtel Navratna retail partners were requested to nominate themselves and share details of their children studying in classes 1st to 12th along with a summary of their results - grades/marks of the last academic year. A total of 600 children of retailers from across the country were then selected basis pre-defined criterions. This year, 1,815 retail partners from MP and Chhattisgarh were selected.
The Navratna program aims to provide business enhancement support to retailers besides organising bonding initiatives among them.