FTII students go on strike, want new course structure scrapped

The authorities received the notice for the strike with a charter of demands on Monday. However, there has been no positive response from the concerned authorities so far, the Students Association of FTII said in a release.

The students have been boycotting classes for the last 12 days and had also made representations to the Academic Council, Governing Council and the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley in this regard, it said.

On August 25, the students met all the members of the faculty including the G-148242; members. The G-14 is a committee comprising 14 members of the Faculty, who claim to have devised this new structure, the release added.