FTII students `on the roll’ taken in

The GC which met to officially ratify the resolutions arrived at between the Information and Broadcasting Minister Jaipal Reddy and students, however decided to seek an appointmentwith the Minister. This infuriated the students who pointed out that when the Minister had already given the assurance to the students, the GC was resorting to delaying tactics.

Students however were an angry lot and according to third year student Uma, despite pleading and entreating the members to reconsider their decision and immediately contact the Minister, they refused to budge. Among demonstrations and sloganeering of Agashe chale jao (Agashe stay away) the students also expressed the fear that there would be a zero semester by default.

It may be recalled that students had called off their indefinite hunger strike on January 10 outside the Siri Fort auditorium, New Delhi following Information and Broadcasting Minister Jaipal Reddy’s assurance over the implementation of the revised syllabus.

According to the agreement, the Minister had reportedly assured that there would be no zero semester, admissions would take place for the three-year course from July this year where the first year batchwould follow the pre-1996 syllabus pattern.

An agreement had also been reached that there would be no qualitative dilution of the revised syllabus and the study of the revised syllabus would be done by the faculty and the representatives of the review panel in a period of eight months, in terms of the five parameters indicated by the Academic Council.

Ravi Gupta, Anand Mahendru, N Chandra, Gautam Ghosh, Suresh Naik among other members were present till late in the evening.