The contentious Film and Television Institute of India Society headed by actor Gajendra Chauhan is set to hold its first meeting at the institute campus today, almost six months after its reconstitution triggered protests and strike by students that lasted over four months.

Many students have been detained outside the campus and protesting students have been lathicharged.

With the institute anticipating trouble from the students during the meeting, the police had issued notices to 17 students asking them to refrain from any act of protest.

The 139-day strike by the students of the Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India ended in October with their main agenda -- the removal of Ganjendra Chouhan as chairperson of the institute and cancelling of the appointments of four members to the FTII society -- remaining unanswered.