MIB India collaborates with IIT Bombay to form a gaming center for teaching animation, VFX courses

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has collaborated with IIT Bombay to form a Centre of Excellence in Gaming for imparting knowledge related to animation, gaming, and VFX through their courses. The announcement regarding the same was made by Information and Broadcasting minister (I & B) Prakash Javedekar while addressing the audience at the virtual exhibition and prize announcement of a toy/game project design competition. 

He said that the Centre that will offer courses on animation, gaming, and VFX is at an advanced stage of preparation and will come into effect as the new session begins in 2021. 

Reasons for starting the gaming, animation course 

Some of the primary reasons for starting this course are as follows:

• I & B Minister said that our Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi is very passionate about preserving Indian values and heritage. Therefore they are putting immense efforts to make the children and youth of the country aware of India’s rich culture and tradition. He said that we can also introduce those values via modern technology and put it to optimum use.
• He also raised an important point regarding certain mobile games which can prove to be harmful to the children playing them. He used the example of PUBG to explain his point. He said that these games are violent, explicit, addictive, and tend to create a complex in the mind of children. But he also said that criticizing these games is not the solution to the problem rather Indian game developers should try to create better local options for children.
• He said, "The solution is to create our own games and apps in line with #MakeInIndia for the world so that these are adopted by the world over for their basic values that are an integral part of our Indian ethos. This effort by the Modi government will fructify and lead the nation into creating new games that promote our Indian cultural ethos."

India looking for local options

The Indian government has already banned PUBG Mobile India since 2 September 2020. It also looks in no mood to re-launch the game which was accused of being engaged in activities that are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity, defense, and security of the country. But large numbers of people played the game and there was a lot of craze for it in the country. The move to start the center of excellence for offering courses in animation, gaming, etc can be seen as the effort of the Indian government to replace PUBG and similar games with locally developed games that promote Indian cultural ethos.

This collaboration and forming of a Centre of Excellence in Gaming will definitely benefit game developments happening in India as the government looks forward to promoting their Make in India initiative and support more locally developed games.

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