India has drawn a line in the sand: recognising the massive potential of AVGC-XR (Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics, and Extended Reality) – the country is putting real investment behind the creators and technologists who can turn vision into reality.
Maharashtra state’s new 2025 AVGC-XR policy gives immersive tech the status of an industry, an infrastructure sector, and even an essential service – allowed to run 24/7, 365 days a year.
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Backed by Rs3,268 crore ($3.67B) and a Rs50,000 crore ($56B) investment target, the policy seeks to create hundreds of thousands of jobs and establish AVGC-XR as a cornerstone of India’s digital economy with growing global influence. For India, this is about claiming its place in the immersive economy as a nation that can build, scale, and deliver the next generation of digital experiences.
Fuelling Investment and Industry Confidence
The new AVGC-XR Parks will be built as tech-rich hubs, featuring everything from fast digital connectivity and virtual production spaces to rendering farms, editing labs, and AI-powered platforms for animation and metaverse projects – access to these ready-made hubs will reduce capital expenditure for businesses by removing the need to invest heavily in building their own costly infrastructure.
Not only this, the recognition of the enterprise as an essential service, able to operate 24/7, comes with instant scalability and reliability. Add to this a roadmap stretching to 2050, and a fast-growing national industry projected to jump from $27B today to $100B by 2030, and the case for private investment in Maharashtra’s AVGC-XR ecosystem becomes hard to ignore.
Jobs, Skills, and Self-Sustaining XR Communities
If infrastructure is the backbone, talent is the heartbeat. What good are billions in investment without the skilled professionals to drive it forward? Job creation sits at the heart of Maharashtra’s AVGC-XR Policy 2025. To ensure the talent pipeline keeps pace with demand, the state will establish a skill advisory committee bringing together industry leaders, academics, and associations.
With the Indian Institute of Creative Technology as the lead institution, new digital portals, and the committee of experts, the policy lays the foundation for a trained workforce. The target is the introduction of 200,000 new high-tech jobs in the next 20 years, but the policy also ensures that the talent entering the sector can match the fast-changing needs of XR and related fields.
By embedding skilling directly into the growth plan, India isn’t just creating jobs, it’s cultivating an adaptable, future-ready workforce that can anchor its rise as a global hub for immersive technology.
The government wants 60% of the land in these hubs to be dedicated to XR and related industries, with the remainder for housing, education, and lifestyle infrastructure so the areas function as self-contained ecosystems where people can work, live, and train.
India Stakes its Claim on the Future of AVGC-XR Development
As AVGC-XR expands its influence across industries such as healthcare, education, defence, marketing, agriculture, and real estate, the government looks to mirror such growth through plans of the physical expansion of AVGC-XR Parks in Nagpur, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Kolhapur, and Satara – extending the sector’s reach with advanced infrastructure and business support.
The AVGC-XR Policy 2025 is more than just numbers on paper – it’s a vision for India to claim its stake in the immersive economy. For professionals in this industry, the opportunities are clear: massive investment flows, lowered costs and a skilled workforce ready to scale global projects.
The question for India is no longer whether XR will reshape industries, but how soon – and the country has already begun laying the groundwork through bold investment and policy.
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