Mumbai, May 3 -- Taking a major leap towards empowering India's animation, visual effects, gaming, comics, and extended reality (AVGC-XR) ecosystem, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, in collaboration with FICCI and CII, has set up the Indian Institute of Creative Technology (IICT) - a National Centre of Excellence dedicated exclusively to the AVGC-XR sector.
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ashwini Vaishnaw formally flagged off this strategic collaboration on Saturday at the ongoing WAVES-2025 summit.
He stressed on India's potential to become a global leader in the media and entertainment sector and said that IICT is on its way to becoming a premier institution in the field, just as IITs and IIMs have become be...