The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry is planning to regulate and conduct procedures centrally in the field of media, films, gaming and animation. To make that happen, it is working towards establishing a Communications University which would function as an umbrella body that will deal with education in these sectors.
“Right now the education in these areas is often provided by private institutions and not standardised,” said a resource person of the I&B Ministry to a leading daily.
The Ministry is planning to set up the university within a time span of three years. The institute would come in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of stabilising this sector. Along with this, the ministry has also planned some initiatives in its short and medium term.
Another initiative that the Ministry is focusing on will be to set up a long-awaited mechanism to provide a single window clearance mechanism for film shootings in India. The Ministry is also hoping that another mechanism to provide online certification of films will be in place in some years.