Mumbai, Aug. 26 -- The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) and Netflix have announced scholarships for 100 students, offering up to 80 per cent financial support across six professional programmes aimed at strengthening India's creative talent pipeline.

The scholarship initiative covers two one-year diploma programmes -- Interactive Comics & Sequential Arts and Visual Effects Mastery -- and four six-month certificate programmes in Virtual Art Department Content Creation, Media Tech Workflow, Art of Character Animation, and E-Sports & Gaming Management, as per the press release.

The scholarships will be available to students and working professionals from across India.

The initiative follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi's m...