India, May 2 -- WAVES 2025 to witness the release of Statistical Handbook on Media and Entertainment Sector 2024-25 of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, tomorrow. This is part of Government's affirmation of the need for timely, reliable, authentic and comprehensive data on the M&E Sector as Media and Entertainment is an important component of the service sector having huge potential to contribute to growth of the economy of the country. Media & Entertainment ecosystem is a sunrise sector expected to grow at 7% CAGR to reach 3067 billion INR in 2027 as per the latest estimate. Various policy initiatives taken and its implementation need to be backed by appropriate data to have the optimum outcome.

Keeping in view the data requirem...