Medilytix Bureau:
As part of achieving Atmanirbharta through the Amrit Mantra of digital education and dynamic skilling, a webinar on implementation of Budget 2022 relating to education sector was organized today. The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressed a webinar. Concerned Union Ministers, key stakeholders from education, skill development, science, technology and research were present on the occasion. The webinar was part of the new practice of discussion and dialogue with the stakeholders before and after the budget.
The breakout session on the topic Strengthening Industry-Skill Linkage in AVGC was moderated by Shri Biran Ghose, Country Head, Technicolour India. The session was co-chaired by Secretary Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Shri Apurva Chandra and Additional Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Shri Atul Tiwari. The panelists included Shri Ashish Kulkarni, CEO of Punaryug Pvt. Ltd, Shri Munjal Shroff, Co-founder Graphiti Multi Media Pvt. Ltd. and Shri Ketan Yadav, COO-VFX Producer, Red Chillies Entertainments Pvt. Ltd.
In his opening remarks, Shri Apurva Chandra said that the announcement on AVGC Task Force in the budget speech is a momentous event which recognizes the importance of the AVGC sector and the role it plays in creating employment in the country. The sector can provide avenue to skilled manpower and become the backbone of media and entertainment industry as a whole. Shri Chandra added that India can become the content creation factory of the world in this sector. He underlined that the Ministry will and incorporate the inputs from this session into the terms while constituting the Task Force.
Shri Chandra also said that the sector has seen tremendous growth in past 7 years and with proper impetus can soon become a world leader. He further said that the content creation part of Gaming requires high skills and we want to focus on that through the task force.
Shri Atul Tiwari, during his remarks said that AVGC sector which has been under-recognized for long is now not only being recognised but is growing at a fast pace and now the sector is in need of intellectual capital and education.