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Maha clears Animation, VE Policy
Orissa POST
|September 17, 2025
The AVGC-XR sector has been granted industry and infrastructure status, it said.
The Maharashtra cabinet Tuesday cleared the new Animation, Visual Effects(VE), Gaming, Comics and Extended Reality (AVGC-XR) Policy 2025 with a roadmap till 2050, projecting the industry to create two lakh jobs and attract Rs 50,000 crore investment over the next 20 years.
Under the policy, dedicated AVGC-XR parks will be developed with world-class infrastructure and special hubs will come up in various parts of the city, including Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Satara and Nagpur.
The state's AVGC-XR Policy 2025 was approved during a meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
This story is from the September 17, 2025 edition of Orissa POST.
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