I&B team to meet FTII students and faculty today to end impasse
August 21, 2015 08:47
A three-member team of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry will today hold talks with the faculty, non teaching staff, students and the director of the Film and Television Institute of India, raising hopes of a possible resolution of the impasse over TV actor and BJP member Gajendra Chauhan being appointed as the chairman.
Coming against the backdrop of unprecedented police crackdown on the campus and arrest of five students on Tuesday night, the delegation leader S M Khan (Registrar of Newspapers in India) said, "The Ministry has constituted the committee to solve the issue at the earliest. We have come with an open mind."
"We will try to calm down the students as much as possible. I cannot comment on arrests," Khan told reporters, adding he was "optimistic about finding a solution".
Meanwhile, over 60 visiting faculty members, in a letter to the I and B Ministry, have urged the government to shun "highhanded and confrontationist" view of the strike and adopt a pragmatic and honourable approach to find a solution.
The striking students have questioned Chauhan's "credentials" to head the premiere institute. They have also objected to the director's decision to conduct assessment of incomplete diploma film projects, now put on hold.
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