IndianOil, the Energy of India, has been fuelling the nation since its inception, as a diversified, integrated energy major. The ‘Fortune Global 500’ Company continues to fuel India’s socio-economic growth story, beyond business, while creating value for all stakeholders and touching the lives of over a billion Indians through its social outreach programmes. Empowering communities, bolstering India’s healthcare, nurturing India’s sporting talent, and preserving the nation’s rich heritage, remain the Company’s key commitments in India’s ascend towards ‘Viksit Bharat’.
Catalysing the sporting aspiration of the nation, over the past three decades, IndianOil has been igniting the flame of athletic excellence.
Way back in 1966, the legendary badminton player Dinesh Khanna joined IndianOil and became a national champion thereafter. Not only this, he won
Bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games of 1966 and in the Asian Games of 1974. Later, in 1986, the Corporation embarked on the mission by inducting the first batch of sportspersons in the game of cricket and later enhanced the pool by including Badminton, Cricket, Table Tennis and Tennis. The subsequent years witnessed raising talent of carrom players in 1995, chess maestros in 1996 and the formidable hockey brigade in the year 2001.
With the formulation and implementation of a comprehensive sports policy in 2003, encompassing recruitment, performance evaluation, promotion, facilities, and code of conduct, IndianOil is proudly nurturing over 150 IOCian sportspersons on its roll. The Company’s rich legacy of sports stars boasts of over 20 Olympians with prominent names like A Sharath Kamal, Rohan Bopanna, Manika Batra, V R Raghunath, Dipankar Bhattacharjee, Deepak Thakur and Devesh Chauhan amongst others.
IndianOil’s flagship sports scholarship programme, IndianOil ‘Acers’, is raising over 200 budding grassroot talent in the country into future champions. These extraordinary champions have clinched innumerable accolades on national and global platforms. For fuelling the wings of empowerment, “IndianOil Shakti”, is another flagship programme aimed at fostering young girls into national athletes. The Corporation is steering India’s Para Sports by raising nascent para-athletes of the nation towards dignified living and self-reliance.
Moving beyond the conventional realm, IndianOil has launched impactful initiatives of social transformation like “Parivartan – Prison to Pride” and “Nai Disha – Smile for Juvenile”. By leveraging the power of sports, these programmes are designed to uplift the lives of prison inmates and juveniles, reflecting Company’s core values of Nation-First and Care.
These sporting initiatives have been widely applauded and have conferred on the Corporation various national and international accolades like the ‘The Friend of FIDE’.
