Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile services provider organised a day long programme on November 14 to mark Children’s Day 2009. On this day Airtel organised an event for children across the North East Region, in both urban & rural areas, to participate in a drawing contests that will showcase their talent.

The programmes encouraged children of Airtel Employees, Airtel Customers, channel partners, vendors & more importantly the less privileged children in our society to take part in the competitions. It may be specially mentioned that more than 30000 children – under privileged and children living in far flung areas, living in various shelters & institutions have been encouraged to take part in the Airtel On the Spot Drawing Competition across the region which were held in more than 600 schools simultaneously.

Mr. Sudipto Choudhury, Chief Operating Officer, Bharti Airtel NESA says, “Airtel is happy to involve & encourage a large number of children across the Northeastern Region in bringing out their latent talents. Through this programme we want to bring about awareness in our future generation on the need for preservation of our environment. Our plan is to showcase the talent of these children through various activities – an art exhibition, Airtel’s New Year Calendar & New Year Cards. “

It may be mentioned here that Airtel had last year successfully organised Sit –and-Draw competitions across the region and is for the second year in succession, organising a grand Children’s Day. Last year the theme was peace, this year it is environment protection.

About Bharti Airtel Limited

Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider with operations in India and Sri Lanka and an aggregate of over 110.89 million customers as of the end of August 2009, consisting of 107.99 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been ranked among the six best performing technology companies in the world by BusinessWeek.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business offers services in India and Sri Lanka. The Telemedia business provides broadband, IPTV and telephone services in 95 cities. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s national high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 104,540 Rkms covering all the major cities in India. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai which connect two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit www.bhartiairtel.in