| The Andhra Pradesh government, in collaboration with FXLabs, DQ Entertainment, Suresh Productions and Sun Network’s Telugu channel Gemini TV, is planning to establish the country’s first ‘Digital Entertainment City’ in Hyderabad.
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| Proposed to be set up on the lines of the Dubai Entertainment City, the project will house animationand game companies, film production houses, music and TV studios, training academies, a regulation support office and an entertainment complex.
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| The project will be managed and promoted by the Digital Entertainment City Task Force (DECTF), a consortium comprising industry leaders including Sashi Reddi, founder and chairman of FXLabs, Suresh Babu, CEO of Suresh Productions, P Kiran, director, Gemini TV, Tapaas Chakravarthy, chairman and CEO, DQ Entertainment, JA Chowdhary, chairman, Nvidia and Sudhir R, CEO, Colorchips, along with the state government.
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| Besides allotting land, the government would facilitate the development and establishment of infrastructure to encourage the growth of the digital entertainment industry in the state capital, said SK Joshi, secretary to the state information technology and communications department.
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| “At least 200 acres of land is required to build an state-of-the-art project. The first phase of the Digital Entertainment City, for which investments of Rs 80 crore would be pooled by the consortium, will be ready by December 2008. We expect to create 10,000 jobs within the city and 20,000 in the surrounding areas in the first year,” Sashi Reddi told Business Standard.
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| According to him, an academy offering various industry-recognised certification courses in animation, gaming and film production is expected to be launched in June 2008. |
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