ABOUT GRASSROOTS SWIMMING CENTRES:
*     JSW Group has set up nine Grassroots Swimming Centre across the State.
*     The Centres are located in Bhubaneswar, Boudh, Sonepur, Ganjam, Mayurbhanj, Angul, Bolangir, Sambalpur and Jajpur.
*     The Grassroots Centres aim at getting more children to take up swimming as a life skill and create a performance pathway for swimmers in the state.
*     Sumit Kumar Sahoo, Senior Swim Teacher, Odisha-JSW Grassroots Swimming Training Centre, Bhubaneswar.
*     According to Sahoo, boys and girls, aged 5-12 years, have been learning swimming at the Bhubaneswar Grassroots Training Centre inside Kalinga Stadium.
*     Five to six batches of trainees, comprising 30 children in each batch, are being trained at the centre.
*     Training takes place in two sessions _ morning 6-8 AM and evening 4-7 PM.
*     Three coaches have been engaged for each batch of trainees.

ABOUT JSW GROUP:
*     JSW Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, based in Mumbai.
*     It is led by Sajjan Jindal and part of the OP Jindal Group.
*     The group is active in sectors such as steel, energy, minerals, ports & infrastructure, and cement, across India, the US, South America, and Africa.
*     JSW Steel, JSW Energy, JSW Ispat Steel, and JSW Cement are among the subsidiaries of JSW Group.
*     Earlier, the name was Jindal South West.
*     Later, the company adopted the name of JSW to promote it as a brand.

ABOUT JSW SPORTS:
*     JSW Sports, which owns IPL team Delhi Capitals, ISL team Bengaluru FC and KPL team Haryana Steelers, is the sports arm of JSW Group.
*     On 15 March 2021, JSW Sports, in collaboration with Sports & Youth Services Department (DSYS), Government of Odisha announced the launch of Grassroot Swimming Programme, which was scheduled to commence from 1 April 2021.

ABOUT INSPIRE INSTITUTE OF SPORTS (IIS):
*     The Inspire Institute of Sport is the first privately funded high performance training centre for athletes in India.
*     Founded by the JSW Group, the facility is spread over 42 acres in Vijayanagar, Bellary district, Karnataka.
*     The institute provides full scholarships to athletes scouted from across the country in athletics, boxing, judo, swimming and wrestling.[
*     According to Parth Jindal, the founder of IIS, the inspiration for starting the institute came from the Olympic gold-medal win of Abhinav Bindra.
*     The construction of the institute began in 2014 and the inauguration of IIS took place on 15 August 2018.
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TOP: Trainees of Odisha JSW Swimming HPC pose at Biju Patnaik Swimming Pool Complex in Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar in October 2021.
RIGHT: Odisha JSW Swimming HPC Senior Coach Sandeep Sejwal at the at Biju Patnaik Swimming Pool Complex in Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar in April 2022.