{"id":46723,"date":"2025-05-04T12:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=46723"},"modified":"2025-05-19T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:14:11","slug":"indian-institute-of-creative-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-institute-of-creative-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Institute of Creative Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Indian Institute of Creative Technology Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Government of India has announced the establishment of the Indian Institute of Creative Technology (IICT) in Mumbai, modelled after the IITs and IIMs.<\/p>\n<h2>About Indian Institute of Creative Technology<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian Institute of Creative Technology (IICT) is India\u2019s first dedicated institute for Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics, and Extended Reality (AVGC-XR), established as a National Centre of Excellence in Mumbai.<\/li>\n<li>IICT is modelled after the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), aiming to set new benchmarks in creative technology education and research.<\/li>\n<li>The institute\u2019s mission is to create Indian intellectual property leveraging the country\u2019s rich cultural heritage and to cultivate talent for the global digital content industry.<\/li>\n<li>IICT will feature state-of-the-art infrastructure, including immersive studios, animation and gaming labs, virtual production setups, editing and sound suites, and smart classrooms.<\/li>\n<li>The permanent campus will be developed over ten acres at Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari (Film City), Goregaon, Mumbai, while initial operations will begin at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/off-the-field\/india-unveils-indian-institute-of-creative-technology-to-empower-youth-in-digital-economy\/articleshow\/120850225.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IICT is India\u2019s first institute for Animation, VFX, Gaming, Comics &#038; XR, set up in Mumbai as a National Centre of Excellence in the AVGC-XR sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":46724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[295,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-46723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-indian-institute-of-creative-technology","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}