IICT to Lead Pan-India AVGC-XR Ecosystem; Hub-and-Spoke Model to Facilitate Nationwide Collaboration

• IICT (Indian Institute of Creative Technology), Mumbai, is India's National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) for AVGC-XR — Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics and Extended Reality.
• Set up as a Section 8 Company under the Companies Act, 2013, jointly by Ministry of I&B with FICCI and CII, modelled on IIT/IIM lines for the creative-tech domain.
• Operates on a hub-and-spoke model: IICT Mumbai = hub; State-level CoEs and partner institutions = spokes.