CoE in graphics, animation, visual tech to be set up

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Chennai, Oct 7 : In a bid to address the manpower shortage in state-of-the-art digital cinema making, the ministry of information and broadcasting will be setting up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) within the current Plan period, to churn out high quality professionals in graphics, animation and visual tech, said V B Pyarelal, joint secretary, ministry of information and broadcasting, government of India, in his address at a seminar on 'Growing power of regional cinema' organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Based upon the feasibility report by PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), CoE will be envisaged the PPP (Private Public Partnership) model with a Rs 50 crore grant from the ministry and remaining by the stakeholding partner, he added.

While delivering on the concessions extended to the showbiz industry, the joint secretary said government is mulling over the option of co-production agreement with various countries and such an agreement signed recently with United Kingdom facilitate Indian producers to avail the UK government sponsored subsidy in film shooting locations of the country. He reeled out ministry's various funding initiatives to prop up the growth and development of Indian documentary and feature film industry under the current five-year Plan.

Listing out, he said a sum of Rs 6.5 crore has been disbursed out of Rs 30 crore allocated to the NFDC (National Film Development Corporation) to promote fresh upbringing of talent and a sum of Rs 20 crore towards the development of outsourcing of Indian documentary film making. Unveiling the refurbishing plans, Pyarelal said Rs 48 crore would be alloted towards sprucing up of Satyajit Ray film and television institute, Kolkata and a sum of Rs 50 crore towards the upgradation of Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.

A sum of Rs 42 crore will be alloted towards setting up of a museum of a moving image in Mumbai, he added. The ministry has around Rs 450 crore outlay under the current five-year Plan towards funding such intiatives, he pointed out.