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India Cine Hub: Single-Window Film Permits
India Cine Hub (ICH) is a government web portal that gives filmmakers one address for permission to shoot in India. The National Film Development Corporation runs it, and it folds co-production paperwork, police clearances and State approvals into a single application that the system routes onward - with film-visa help for foreign crews and, lately, clearances for live events too.
Last updated 22 September 20266 min read
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Explains India Cine Hub, the single-window portal that NFDC runs for film-shooting permission: what one application now covers, the film-visa and co-production routes, the move into live-event clearances, and the size of the sector it serves.
- India Cine Hub
- NFDC
- film shooting permits
- film visa
- Live Events Development Cell
- film tourism
- Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
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