Ashwini Vaishnaw Envisions Mumbai as the Epicenter of the World’s Digital Content Revolution

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced the Indian Institute of Creative Technology (IICT) at WAVES 2025, transforming Mumbai into a content creation hub of the world. Backed by ₹400 crore of PM Modi and land from Maharashtra, IICT will train creators in AVGC-XR (Animation, VFX, Gaming, Comics, Extended Reality) in association with NVIDIA, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and Meta as partner organizations.

 

Key features:

 

Phase 1: Placed in NFDC Building, Pedder Road with game development laboratories, virtual production spaces, and experience studios.

 

Phase 2: 10-acre Film City campus in Goregaon for adding R&D and incubation.

 

Global partnership: Curriculum and technology support by global leaders to develop "future-proofed" professionals.

 

Vaishnaw discussed India's 40 million creatives and WAVES in the context of bridging the global creative landscape.

 

Sources: NDTV, Economic Times, Bollywood Hungama