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Under the close supervision of skilled coaches, training is imparted to young, talented individuals to excel at national and international level sports competitions.

Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata envisaged not only Asia’s first integrated steel plant but also the model township of Jamshedpur. In his letters, he advised his son, Sir Dorabji Tata, to “earmark areas for football, hockey, and parks”. As early as 1919, Sir Dorabji Tata financed 4 athletes and 2 wrestlers for the 1920 Antwerp, Belgium Olympics. Subsequently in 1924, Sir Dorabji Tata also became the first President of the Indian Olympic Association. Jamshedpur’s reputation as the Sports capital of Jharkhand, is a natural follow-up of Tata Steel’s commitment to sports.

J R D Tata gave fruition to the Founder’s vision, inculcating sports as an integral part of Tata Steel’s corporate philosophy. The Company’s commitment towards the promotion of sports is manifested through separate departments for football, archery, athletics and more. Over time, an impressive array of infrastructure, matching international standards to support sports has been built.

JRD Tata Sports Complex

Spread over 30 acres of area, the complex has an 8-lane synthetic track, international-size swimming pool, boxing centre, skating area, basketball court, archery ground, handball ground, lawn tennis court, volleyball court, table tennis hall, chess centre and adventure sports. The JRD Tata Sports Complex is the home of Jamshedpur FC, making the football club the only Indian Super League (ISL) franchisee to have its own stadium.

Gopal Maidan,
Armoury, Beldih,
CNR, Club House

These grounds are extensively used not only for sporting events but also for various social functions.

Keenan Stadium

Built in 1939, primarily for cricket matches, it has a capacity of 18000 and has hosted more than a dozen matches against foreign visiting teams and 10 one-day international cricket matches. More than 100 Ranji and Duleep Trophy matches have been conducted in the stadium since its inception.

Golf Course

Jamshedpur has one 9-hole & one 18-hole golf course where many competitions are hosted annually.

Residential sports academies of international standards have been established for preparing international level players:

Tata Football Academy

The Academy imparts intensive training to budding sportspersons with an objective of providing mainstream national football with a perennial pool of young footballers, trained and oriented to international standards. The Academy is spread over 25000 sq ft area, amidst green surroundings and accommodates 40 trainees. Over the last 25 years, the Tata Football Academy has trained 213 cadets, 134 of whom have represented the country at various levels. To know more about the Tata Football Academy, Visit website: www.tatafootballacademy.com/

Tata Archery Academy

Tata Archery Academy was formally inaugurated by Dr J J Irani, Former Managing Director of Tata Steel, on October 4, 1996. With this single gesture, the lives and hopes of many youngsters, especially from the Eastern Singhbhum area received a boost. Tata Archery Academy intends to spot and nurture talent to conform to international standards. Over the last 16 years, the Archery Academy has trained 127 cadets, 45 of whom have represented the country at various levels.

New Initiatives

Naval Tata Hockey Academy

In furtherance to Tata Steel efforts of promoting sports, Tata Steel has extended its support in a formalised way to hockey in the state of Jharkhand and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tata Trust to set up the Naval Tata Hockey Academy (NTHA) in Jamshedpur. This initiative will also provide the following benefits to the Company:

Pioneering move

This proposal provides an opportunity to the company to add another feather to its cap of by being the first private company to open a hockey academy. There is a vast pool of natural talent in hockey in this area, who need proper technical and administrative support to make their mark in the global sports arena.

Tata's association with hockey

Mr Naval Tata had only one passion in sports, which was hockey. During his tenure as President, Indian Hockey Federation (IHF), India won the Gold at Olympics. The moment he left the IHF, India lost the gold to Pakistan in the next Olympics itself. It is because of his love of hockey, he continued to be the President of Bombay Hockey Association long after relinquishing the Indian Hockey Federation Chair.

Concentration of talent in India

Hockey’s power centres in India are located away from the metropolitan areas. They are in the tribal belts of Jharkhand, Odisha, Jalandhar and Sansarpur in the hinterland of Punjab. The first Indian hockey captain was from Jharkhand - Late Jaipal Singh.

Opportunities for cadets

There would be many more job opportunities available for cadets of hockey academy (compared to some like archery and football) since many Government Sector and Public-Sector units have their hockey team. Moreover, with the success of Indian Hockey League (IHL), the demand for quality players is going to increase.

The location for NTHA has been identified and is being developed at ISWP Sports Complex in Jamshedpur.

Tata Steel - Sports Authority of India (SAI) Extension Training Centres

An MoU between Tata Steel (TSL) and Sports Authority of India (SAI) was signed on October 7, 2015 at Jamshedpur. The objective of the MoU is to strengthen the development of boxing, athletics, archery and football at Jamshedpur by way of convergence of efforts and partnership between SAI and TSL.

Broad areas of cooperation include:

Coach education: Improvement of technical know-how of Indian coaches in boxing, archery, athletics and football to match international standards.
Talent identification: Improvement of boxing, athletics, archery, and football talent identification systems in the country.
Talent development: Nurturing and developing the identified boxing, athletics, archery and football talent.
Sports infrastructure: Creation of world-class infrastructure for boxing, athletics, archery and football at Jamshedpur.
Partnership in excellence for sports in general.

Jamshedpur Football Club

Tata Steel, under the aegsis of Tata Group, successfully bid for the Jamshedpur franchise in the 4th season of the coveted Indian Super League (ISL). The Company has been a pioneer in the development of sports in India, and this is in furtherance of the same.

The club will be playing their home matches at the iconic JRD Tata Sports Complex. The team will be under the guidance of head coach Steve Coppell in the 2017-18 Indian Super League season.
Visit website: www.fcjamshedpur.com

Major Achievements

Employees

Over 5500 employees participate in sporting events, health & fitness programs, and lifestyle management programs held through out the year.

Community

1601 trainees were engaged through training centres and academies.
11 trainees got employment in the Army and the Jharkhand Police based on their exemplary performance at National/International events.

Focus on Affirmative Action

512 ST/SC boys & girls were provided training in academies and training centres.

Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar

Tata Steel is the only corporate in the country to have been awarded Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar by the Honourable President of India in the following categories:

Establishment & Management of Sports Academies of Excellence in 2009
Community Sports - Identification & Nurturing of Budding Talent in 2009
Financial Support for Sports Excellence in 2010

Major Events

Some of the major events that the Sports Department covers are as follows:

Summer Camp
JRD Tata Birth Anniversary Celebration
National Sports Day & Sir Dorabji Tata Birth Anniversary Celebration
Teachers / Coaches Day Celebration
Tata Steel Jamshedpur Run-a-thon
Jharkhand State School Games
Jharkhand State Boxing & Archery Championships

Inter Union Volleyball, Table Tennis, Badminton
Inter JDC Volleyball and Cricket
Tata Steel Bhubaneswar Half Marathon
All India Inter Steel Athletics Championship
38th Junior National Archery Championship
MYAS National Games
S K Nanawati Cricket Tournament

Roll of Honour

RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA AWARD

PADMASHREE

DRONACHARYA AWARD

ARJUNA AWARD

DHYANCHAND LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

OLYMPIANS

ASIAN GAMES MEDALIST

COMMONWEALTH GAMES

PADMASHREE AWARDEES

Name	Year	Discipline	Award
Mr Charles Borromeo	1984	Athletics	Padmashree
Mr Chuni Goswami	1984	Football	Padmashree
Mr P.K.Banerjee	1985	Football	Padmashree
Ms Bachendri Pal	1985	Mountaineering	Padmashree
Mr Prem Chand Degra	1990	Body Building	Padmashree
Mr Sourav Ganguly	2004	Cricket	Padmashree
Mr Pullela Gopichand	2005	Badminton	Padmashree
Ms Bula Chawdhury	2006	Swimming	Padmashree
Mr Limba Ram	2011	Archery	Padmashree
Ms Premlata Agarwal	2012	Mountaineering	Padmashree
Ms Deepika Kumari	2016	Archery	Padmashree

RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA AWARDEE

Name	Year	Discipline	Award
Mr Pullela Gopichand	2001	Badminton	Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

DRONCHARYA AWARDEES

Name	Year	Discipline	Award
Mr Illyas Babar	1998	Athletics	Dronacharya
Mr Ken O Bosen	1999	Athletics	Dronacharya
Mr Sanjeeva Singh	2008	Archery	Dronacharya
Mr Pullela Gopichand	2009	Badminton	Dronacharya
Ms Purnima Mahato	2013	Archery	Dronacharya

ARJUNA AWARDEES

Name	Year	Discipline	Award
Mr P.K.Banerjee	1961	Football	Arjuna
Mr Chuni Goswami	1963	Football	Arjuna
Mr Arun Lal Ghosh	1965	Football	Arjuna
Mr Kenneth .L.Powell	1965	Athletics	Arjuna
Mr Parveen Kumar	1967	Athletics	Arjuna
Mr Edward Sequeira	1971	Athletics	Arjuna
Mr.Shivnath Singh	1974	Athletics	Arjuna
Mr Anjan Bhattacharjee	1974	Cricket	Arjuna
Mr Amar Singh	1975	Cycling	Arjuna
Mr T. Vijayaraghwan	1977	Basketball	Arjuna
Mr Subrata Dutta	1979	Powerlifting	Arjuna
Mr Suresh Kumar Mishra	1980	Volleyball	Arjuna
Md. Habib	1981	Football	Arjuna
Mr Charles Borromeo	1982	Athletics	Arjuna
Mr Dibyendu Barua	1983	Chess	Arjuna
Mr Ravi Shastri	1984	Cricket	Arjuna
Ms Bachendri Pal	1986	Mounteering	Arjuna
Mr Jaipal Singh	1986	Boxing	Arjuna
Mr Prem Chandra Degra	1986	Body Building	Arjuna
Mr Balwinder Singh	1987	Athletics	Arjuna
Mr Bagicha Singh	1987	Athletics	Arjuna
Ms Mercy Kuttan	1989	Athletics	Arjuna
Ms Bula Chawdhury	1990	Swimming	Arjuna
Mr Limba Ram	1991	Archery	Arjuna
Mr Sanjeeva Singh	1992	Archery	Arjuna
Mr Cawas Billimoria	1993	Judo	Arjuna
Mr Moraad Ali Khan	1996	Shooting	Arjuna
Mr Ajit Bhaduriya	1996	Athletics	Arjuna
Mr Raj Kumar Sangwan	1996	Boxing	Arjuna
Mr Sourav Ganguly	1997	Cricket	Arjuna
Mr Pullela Gopichand	2000	Badminton	Arjuna
Ms Dola Banerjee	2005	Archery	Arjuna
Mr Jayant Talukdar	2006	Archery	Arjuna
Mr K.M. Binu	2006	Athletics	Arjuna
Ms Chitra K. Somen	2007	Athletics	Arjuna
Ms Sinimole Paulose	2009	Athletics	Arjuna
Mr Deepak Mandal	2010	Football	Arjuna
Mr Rahul Banerjee	2010	Archery	Arjuna
Ms Deepika Kumari	2012	Archery	Arjuna
Ms Chekrowolu Swuro	2013	Archery	Arjuna