Pune: The agitating students of the Film and Television Institute of India are not averse to the ministry secretary assuming the post of chairman till a transparent mechanism to select the institute’s governing body is evolved, sources on the campus have said.
A suggestion to this effect came up during the first round of talks between representatives of FTII students’ association and the I&B ministry officials held in Mumbai last week to break the deadlock over the appointment of actor Gajendra Chauhan, a BJP member, as the institute’s chairman.
A random query on part of the ministry officials as to what would happen if the current governing council (headed by Chauhan who is yet to take charge) was dissolved as demanded by the students is said to have led to this suggestion by the students’ delegation.
The delegation pointed out that the FTII did not have any governing council even during the one-and-a-half year period since the expiry of the previous chairman Saieed Mirza’s term and the institute has been in charge of the director, the sources said.
