A hard posturing by FTII management has led to issuance of notices to 30 hostelites to vacate their rooms for overstaying. The institute's new Director Prashant Pathrabe has announced to adjudge pending film projects of the 2008 batch students on "as is where is" (existing status of the project) basis.
All this has resulted in building up more tension on the campus.
FTII students association (FSA) representative Ranjit Nair while talking to PTI today alleged that the management was adopting "desperate measures" to get rid of the students and weaken the strike in keeping with the diktat of the I&B Ministry even though the dean and faculty were sceptical about the assessment method.
Drum beating by students on strike outside the auditorium, in which the incomplete films were being screened for assessment, reportedly forced the management to stop the exercise temporarily in last two days.
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Prashant Pathrabe, currently heading the PIB office here, who took additional charge as FTII Director on July 17, remained inaccessible for his comment on the issue.
After failure of talks with the students' representatives in Delhi on July 3, the I&B Ministry officials have stubbornly refused to hold second round of dialogue with the FSA, cold-shouldering their demand for removal of Chauhan, accused by students of lacking in stature and vision to head the institute.