• WUSHU Martial Art- With an objective to promote and motivate sportsmanship among rural youth, Wushu and Kick Boxing a form of martial arts training was started at Sialijoda of Deojhar Gram Panchayat in the year 2011 initially covering 30 students at Barbil in Odisha. Currently 349 players are been trained regularly in 3 different locations. The players from the communities are representing the country in international level tournaments winning the individual matches and becoming champions in the event. The project covers 315 trainees from Deojhar Gram Panchayat and Barbil Municipality. Over 90 players participated out of which 75 won medals in the international, national and state level tournaments. Over the years 83.33% is the winning rate of the players during the period. India has got 2 nos of medals, one Gold and a Silver from the international tournaments. Mr. Babulu Munda from Barbil, Odisha has won Silver medal in the 7th World Wushu Championship at Brazil in July'18 and Miss Manju Munda from Barbil in Odisha has won Gold Medal representing India in the Moscow Stars Wushu Championship at Russia.

Football: OP Jindal Football Tournament:

• OP Jindal memorial Football Tournament is organised across the location every year. Now, the District Athletic Association is also supporting these teams through sports kits and coaching.
• Regular coaching on Football.

Coaching is imparted in Martial Arts, Hockey, Archery, Football, Kabaddi and Cricket. The youth engaged in the sports are supported with training programmes and coaching. Facilitation for enrolment of the local and tribal youths at Sports Authority of India is being done by the Foudation. We also support the youth engaged at our sports centre with appropriate nutrition. Local tournaments are organised on regular basis for encouraging the partcipation and sportsmanship amongst the local youths.

OP Jindal Cricket Academy was established in year 2018 at Gharghoda Cricket Stadium, District Raigarh, Chattisgarh. The main objective of establishing this Academy was to provide quality cricket coaching with state of art equipments and facilities for nourishing the budding cricketing talent of the area. Jindal Foundation JPL Tamnar provides latest bowling machine along with ball and cricket kit, cricket practice net and turf for coaching and practice session, full time qualified cricket coach and round the year maintenance of Cricket ground. Around 150 rural youths and adolescent girls are taking free of cost coaching. 8 youths from Academy selected in district level cricket team and 3 in state level team, Academy also organized various cricket tournament conducted by CGCA along with OP Jindal Cricket tournament.

National Bal Bhavan (NBB) is an autonomous body under Ministry of Human Resource & Development. This autonomous institute was established in Delhi in the year 1956. This is a premier apex centre for enhancement of education and creative capacity among children. The Bal Bhavans conduct various activities for children. Efforts are being made to bring out hidden creativity of children through activities of Bal Bhavans.

Jindal Foundation has signed a partnership with The International Hockey Federation (FIH) for the later’s development programs. FIH and Jindal Foundation will be working closely for the development of hockey over the coming months. This partnership will also see the Jindal Foundation coming onboard the ongoing FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela as a Global Partner.

It has been a matter of great pride and privilege for the nation to host the Men’s Hockey World Cup. Hockey has deep foundation touching and binding millions across the country. At Jindal Foundation, we are committed to bringing the social change through sustainable development for the people and for the nation at large in-turn making a difference to millions at the ground level. People of this nation are the common factor for our partnership with FIH for the ongoing Men’s Hockey World Cup and we are proud of Hockey as the Sports of our Nation’s passion. We congratulate Govt of Odisha for nurturing Hockey consistently and organising World Cup Hockey in this magnificent scale second time consecutively”, said Shallu Jindal , Chairperson Jindal Foundation