Nominations open till June 25, 2004
 

Hyderabad, June, 2004: Bharti Center for Entrepreneurial Initiatives (BCEI), a Bharti Foundation and Entrepreneurship Development Institute’s joint initiative, today announced nominations for the ‘Bharti Entrepreneur Award 2004’ would be open till June 25, 2004. The award is an annual event and comprises of a cash award of Rs. 1 lakh, a trophy and a citation. The award recognizes the accomplishments of trained first generation entrepreneurs. This award, last year, was presented to a Punjab based entrepreneur Mr. R. S. Khadwalia, CMD, Indo Farm Equipment Ltd.

Entries for this year’s award is invited from regular Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP) trained first generation entrepreneurs, emerging from preferably a non-business family and possessing five successful years in business. An institution or an NGO conducting entrepreneurship development training can also nominate its trained entrepreneur(s).Nominations can be sent to Mr. S. B. Sareen, at sareen@ediindia.org

A jury consisting of eminent professionals and educationists would shortlist the eligible applications and the short listed candidates would be invited at the EDI campus, Ahmedabad for personal interaction with the jury. The personal interaction would explore the vision, roadmap and strategies conceived to tackle the rough times in business and future directions.

The Bharti Centre for Entrepreneurial Initiatives was set up in the year 2002 with an objective of promoting entrepreneurship through a host of activities in education, research and training. As a part of its program, the institute conducts an annual nationwide search for identifying the Entrepreneur of the Year.

About Bharti Foundation
Bharti Foundation, promoted by Bharti Enterprises, India’s leading private telecom company, was set up in year 2000, with a dream to reach out to the disadvantaged children and youth in India. Its vision is, To help underprivileged children and young people of our country realize their potential.

Since its inception in year 2000, Bharti Foundation has supported more than 40 development initiatives. Some of these include the setting up of Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology & Management as a center of excellence for education & research for all facets of telecom technologies and management, the setting up of Bharti Center for Entrepreneurial Initiatives at Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad with an objective to develop, facilitate, and motivate entrepreneurs, starting of the Mid-day meal program with Akshay Patra, Delhi & Vrindavan etc.