<\/p>\n\tStay Informed<\/p>\n
Get Industry News In Your Inbox\u2026<\/p>\n
Sign Up Today<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
India’s new Union Budget for 2026 has allocated \u20b9250 crore ($27.3m) for talent development in animation, visual effects, gaming and comics.<\/p>\n
The Game Developer Association of India (GDAI) has welcomed the fiscal budget for its focus on the creative sectors.\u00a0The association called the moves a clear endorsement of industry-led efforts to build a new generation of the country\u2019s interactive media workforce.<\/p>\n
GDAI said the move will help embed game development and interactive media into national education and skilling frameworks.<\/p>\n
Moreover, India\u2019s Union Budget backs the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies to roll out AVGC Content Creator Labs across 15,000 schools and 500 colleges.<\/p>\n
The move is also aimed at building early-stage skills and creating a nationwide pipeline of future-ready game and interactive media talent.<\/p>\n
Strengthening creativity\u00a0<\/p>\n
GDAI estimates that with coordinated policy support, India\u2019s games sector could train over 200,000 developers, support more than 1,500 studios and generate $10 billion in annual exports by 2035.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the past few years, GDAI has been closely engaging with government stakeholders to help shape a long-term talent pipeline that starts at the school level and extends through higher education and industry readiness,\u201d said GDAI board member Manish Agarwal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe strongly welcome this move, which will significantly accelerate the growth of gaming, AVGC-XR, and interactive media careers across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nazara Technologies CEO and joint MD Nitish Mittersain commented: \u201cThe Budget\u2019s focus on AVGC is a very positive step for India\u2019s creative and gaming ecosystem.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThis is not just about employment – it\u2019s about creating original Indian IP, strengthening our creative economy, and positioning Bharat as a global hub for gaming and interactive entertainment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AVGC Content Creator Labs will be rolled out across 15,000 schools and 500 colleges. GDAI says the moves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[11357,138,219,266,2344,1426,151013,111,139,151014,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-264202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-india","13":"tag-investment","14":"tag-manish-agarwal","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nitish-mittersain","18":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}