Encouragement and support for sports at Tata Steel dates back nearly a century, and is part of its culture. Tata Steel has been one of the foremost corporate promoters of Indian sports – having built academies for football, archery, athletics, hockey and sport climbing.
It was a tradition started by the company’s first chairman Sir Dorabji Tata, who financed India’s first Olympic team to Antwerp, Belgium in 1920. Tata Steel later established the Jamshedpur Athletic Club in 1927, and started sports competitions for working women and children.
The testimony to our efforts in adding value to the overall sports eco system of the country is that Tata Steel has produced 1 Padma Bhushan, 11 Padma Shri, 1 Khel Ratna, 5 Dronacharya and 41 Arjuna Awardees in the field of sports.
Tata Steel has been consistently involved in creating and nurturing professional sportspersons through its academies and grassroots feeder centres. In 1984, Tata Steel set up its Tata Youth Adventure Centre, known today as the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation.
Three years later in 1987, the company launched the Tata Football Academy.
Tata Archery Academy was established in 1996, which has produced many champion players like Deepika Kumari, Jayanta Talukdar, Atanu Das, Limba Ram etc. who have gone on to represent India in Olympics.
Indian athletics, too, received a boost when Tata Steel unveiled the Tata Athletics Academy in 2004. In 2017, Tata Steel for the first time stepped into commercial side of sports when it started Jamshedpur Football Club (JFC), which competes in India’s premier football league the ISL. The same year saw the emergence of Naval Tata Hockey Academy. Tata Steel started this as a joint venture with Tata Trust with an aim to train the budding hockey enthusiasts and in turn bring back the glory of Indian Hockey at the international arena.
Tata Steel has also been running training centres of 19 different sports disciplines in the JRD Sports Complex in Jamshedpur training close to 2500 kids every year.
Meanwhile, apart from promoting professional sportspersons, Tata Steel has also been involved in promoting fitness culture amongst the masses through its marathons which are organized in 5 cities across India.
Six years ago, Tata Steel started the TSK 25 (Tata Steel Kolkata 25), a 25-km marathon that has a social cause at its heart – supporting the Tata Medical Center, a cancer hospital in Kolkata. Tata Steel has also organized running events annually in Jamshedpur and Noamundi (both in Jharkhand) and Bhubaneshwar & Angul (both in Odisha).
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