Bharti Airtel announces new organization structure for India operations

New Delhi, February 7, 2013: Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications

services provider with operations in over 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today
announced a new organization structure for its Indian operations. The new
organization design, which will be effective March 1, 2013, is aimed at furthering
the Company's initiatives to build a more connected organization, which is closer to
the market place and is able to deliver a world-class experience to customers.

The Company has outlined a new hub organization design for its India operations.
Instead of the current 3 regional hubs, the organization will now be divided into 8
hub operations reporting to a newly created position of Director - Market
Operations.

Circle CEOs who report in to a Hub CEO will continue to operate with the same level
of independence. The Hub CEO will provide overall guidance and oversight to the
Circles under it.

Ajai Puri, currently Operations Director North & East has been appointed as the
Director - Market Operations for India and will report to Gopal Vittal, Jt MD and CEO
Designate for India.

Raghunath Mandava, currently Operations Director for West & Distribution has been
appointed Director - Customer Experience, reporting to Gopal Vittal.

Najib Khan, CMO - Airtel Business, has been appointed as CEO Homes and Office. In
this role, Najib will be responsible for the Company's Telemedia business, the SMB
vertical, LTE and Wi-fi.

K Srinivas will take over as Director - Special Projects (effective 4th March 2013). He
would be responsible for evaluating potential investment opportunities and
developing business case across various lines of business and report to the
Chairman, Bharti Airtel.

About Bharti Airtel

Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with

operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi,
India, the company ranks amongst the top 4 mobile service providers globally in
terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and
4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed DSL
broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long
distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G wireless
services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 260 million customers across
its operations at the end of December 2012. To know more please visit,
www.airtel.in.

Anchored deeply into its business strategy, sustainability and corporate social responsibility are
fundamentals to Airtel's business commitments and initiatives. For Airtel, sustainability is about
a responsible business approach that creates long-term stakeholder value by taking into
consideration every dimension of how business operates in the social, cultural and economic
environment. Airtel strongly believes that its approach will help create a long-term shared value
for its customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and the community.
While broadening its sustainability efforts, in year 2011, Airtel responded to the challenge
through finalizing its Blueprint for Social Inclusion. The Blueprint, through its vision and
action pillars, ensured that million more are included and empowered through sustainable social
and economic development.
Through its sincere endeavors over the years, Airtel has made rapid progress in all three
dimensions of sustainability. Hence, the Company decided to scale up its efforts and drive its
sustainability agenda to create a striking balance between business priorities and its sustainability
approach towards environmental protection and socio-economic well-being for all. In 2015,
Airtel launched the Sustainability Plan 2020, which is the framework for its sustainable
business. The Companys strategy maintains its emphasis on customers, community, partners,
planet and people, with focused and measurable goals that align with the Companys business
objectives. Airtel aims to actualize its sustainability vision of social inclusion of people
everywhere and contributing to a sustainable future, while decoupling the growth with
environment fallout and increasing the social impact.