Together good things happen - Airtel

Corporate
social responsibility
Disaster Relief and Support
Bharti Airtel has a nation-wide presence that has grown at an
exponential rate in the recent years. Each local office undertakes
special programs for the local community, thereby touching their
lives directly. From time to time various initiatives like material
collection, tree plantation, adoption of old age homes and
orphanages, blood donation camps, etc are undertaken for the
welfare of fellow beings in need.
Bharti Airtel has contributed Rs 10 mn each for helping in flood
relief for Chief Ministers Relief Funds for Andhra Pradesh &
Karnataka states. Educational support was provided to children of
Guwahati blast victims in North East states. During Mumbai floods
last year, employees climbed up the towers to restore the networks
so that our customers can connect with their near and dear ones.
Company’s ‘Rapid Response Team’ responded to the Kashmir
earthquake by bringing more than 2,000 food packets and water
bottles to the affected area. Money, clothes, woolens and blankets
were also collected from employees to distribute among
earthquake victims.
Think Green
Bharti Airtel is committed towards taking steps to protect
environment either by direct initiatives or conserving the
by-products to reduce fossil fuel consumption.
We have been running power saving programs in our offices and
on network operations for over 5 years now. These programs help
in reducing costs and our carbon footprint. Airtel has pioneered
the Green Shelter concept for BTS. This unique shelter comes with
optimal cooling, power and thermal management systems,
minimising the running of backup systems like diesel generator
sets. The solution reduces operational costs by as much as 40% as
compared to conventional shelters and avoids being a cause of
global warming, as the greenhouse gas emissions are minimal.
Green IT has been a focus area at Airtel and has been a key in all IT
decisions and strategies which includes IT infrastructure at our
office buildings & data centers. Airtel and its partners are working
to assess our IT energy efficiency holistically, which will help the
Company apply an end–to–end strategy that integrates the key
components of the energy picture. The Company has taken
initiatives to achieve vision of environment conservation and a team
is driving its ‘Green’ program through the key focused areas of
paperless initiative, data center optimisation, desk-side initiatives
and employee awareness programs.
Initiatives have been taken to reduce paper in the day to day
working operations both for internal as well as external customers.
Processes are introduced to enable paperless workflow based
methodologies and approval mechanisms within the Company.
This automation not only provides higher efficiency but has proven
to be extremely useful in reducing consumption of paper within the
organisation.
Bharti Airtel’s initiative of e-bill to reduce paper based transactions
for statements has been quite successful. With post paid customer
base of more than 10 mn, this initiative is a big area to achieve
environmental conservation. The Company promotes usage of
e-bills to its customers via several incentives from time to time.
Being a technology oriented industry; Bharti Airtel has taken various
significant initiatives in data center domain to reduce electricity
consumption. As a part of first phase we have already consolidated
26 data centers to 4 regional data centers and saved space as well
as power. In the second phase of this initiative, we are working on
server/ storage consolidation within the same location and target to
deliver 10% - 15% enhanced productivity.
The Company uses electrical equipments with high energy
efficiency and low anti environment emissions. This is a key factor
while procuring any electrical equipment. Initiatives like use of
water based chilling unit at new data centers for cooling instead of
gas based are helping in protecting the environment and depletion
of ozone layer.