Zica Odisha About Us

About Us

The Essel Group

Essel Group, founded in 1976, is among India's most prominent business houses with a diverse portfolio of assets in areas like: Media, Technology, Packaging, Infrastructure, Education, Precious Metals, and Healthy Lifestyle & Wellness. Essel Group operates several brands like: Zee Network, Dish TV, DNA, Fun Republic, E-City, Asian Sky Shop and Essel World to name a few.

Essel Group

Zee Networks

Zee Network is India's largest Media conglomerate with a presence in Broadcasting, Content Production, Cable TV, Movies and Music. It is India's first and largest vertically integrated media and entertainment company with its operations spread across many countries worldwide including India, USA, UK / Europe, Africa, Caribbean, Canada, Australia, Middle East and many South Asian countries.

Key offering from the Essel Group

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.

730 Mn viewers across 169 countries, one of the, few channels for india

Zee Learn Ltd.

India's leading educational orgnizations that is setting benchmarks in the education space

Zee News Ltd.

India's largest news network with 10 channels reaching to over 130 Mn viewers

Essel Propack Ltd.

Largest speciality packaging company manufacturing laminated & seamless plastic tubes

Dish TV India Ltd.

Asia's largest DTH provider, a pioneer when it comes to digital entertainment

The Essel Group - Other offerings

Zee Learn

Zee Learn is India’s leading company in education segment with the fastest growing chain of K-12 schools – Mount Litera Zee School and Asia’s No 1 chain of pre-school network – Kidzee in its portfolio.

With one most advanced teaching methodology – Litera Octave, Zee Learn under its brand name Mount Litera Zee Schools provides promising education to the future generation enabling them to explore their true unique potential. Awarded as the ‘K-12 School Chain of the Year’ at Indian Educational Congress in 2015, Mount Litera Zee school has over 90 schools in 80+ cities nationwide.

Zee Learn also runs Asia’s No. 1 chain of pre-schools, Kidzee with more than 1500+ operational pre-schools in over 550 cities across India and neighboring countries. Kidzee is a pioneer in Early Childhood Education and standardized pre-schooling in the country under its proprietary pedagogy – Interactive iLLUME. Kidzee has so far touched the lives of more than 400,000 children since its inception in 2003.

Enabled by its extensive experience in understanding of education and learning, Zee Learn is extending its services to other schools. Zee Learn School Innovations works with existing schools to improve their student outcomes and efficiency through a School Audit that identifies improvement areas.

Youth today is looking for vocational education outside the ambit or traditional higher education. Acknowledging this fact, Zee Learn has developed Zee Institute of Media Arts (ZIMA), a TV and Film training institute in Mumbai that offers diploma courses in Direction, Acting, Sound, Editing, Production and Cinematography. Another offering from the company, Zee Institute of Creative Art (ZICA) is the India’s first full-fledged Classical and Digital Animation Training Academy that trains youth in classical 2D, modern 3D animation and VFX in over 15 cities across the country.

Zee learn

Backed by Zee and Essel Group, Zee Learn aims to empower India's children and youth

Asia's largest preschool
1700+ centers
650+ cities 7+ lakh children.

A world preschool with an International at Mumbai.

India's fastest growing network
- over 110 schools
- across 90+ cities

An IB school of global standards at BKC Mumbai

ZICA is the nation's first full-fledged Classical and Digital Animation Training Academy with 15 centers across India

Courses in Film Making, Television, Music, Radio, Journalism with 3 centers in Mumbai, Noida and Jaipur

History of Zica

India's Premier Classical & Digital Animation Institute

Zee Institute of Creative Art (ZICA) is the India's first full-fledged Classical and Digital Animation Training Academy that trains youth in classical 2D and modern 3D animation. The past seventeen years has seen the institute nurture some of the brightest talents in the world of animation. The institute has adopted a novel training style and is focused entirely on creating a stimulating environment for its students.

"Zee Institute of Creative Art, with its state-of-the-art infrastructure, gives practical training in 2D Animation, 3D Animation, Visual Effects & Gaming, covering the stages of visualization, Pre-production, production and post-production. At ZICA, a lot of emphasis is laid on the principles of art and design and fundamentals of classical animation, while extracting the same knowledge to computer based Digital animation. Students are also assured of creative exposure with a healthy mix of theory and practical sessions, delivered with the right amalgamation of Art & technology, under the supervision of in-house experienced faculties and industry experts from India and abroad." ZICA's Training Studio is equipped with high end animation tools, 2D animation facilities, 3D software, Visual FX Labs and imaging technologies. After every semester, a well laid out assessment procedure ensures the student's acceptability as dignified professionals in the world of animation.

ZICA propagates the inherent artistic and aesthetic skills in each student, rather than only the software, which keeps on upgrading from time to time.

Today ZICA, with over 30 centres in more than 15 major cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Bhubneshwar, Ahmedabad etc. emerges as young India's chosen partner to turn passion into profession.

ZICA Association

"Essel Group" of Companies, founded in 1976, is a diversified conglomerate with interests in Media, Packaging, Amusement Parks, Entertainment and Education among others. It's portfolio includes some of the most renowned brands in India such as Zee TV and other allied channels, Dish TV, Siticable, Fun Republic, Esselworld, Playwin and Kidzee. Zee has always endeavoured to establish a 'connect factor' among Indians worldwide to their culture, and provide them with the best form of Indian entertainment.

Awards

zicaodisha award