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Talks between I&B ministry and FTII students turn inconclusive; Next meeting on Oct 6

The second meeting between representatives of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry and FTII Students' Association (FSA) in Mumbai today too turned out to be inconclusive with the government calling for another meeting at New Delhi on October 6. <br/><br/>The meeting was attended by I&B Joint Secretary Sanjay Murthi, Deputy Secretary Deepak Kumar, ADG Doordarshan and Films Division Mukesh Sharma and FTII Director Prashant Pathrabe. The first meeting between the two was held on Tuesday at Films division in Mumbai.<br/><br/>According to FTII students the meeting is not yet over in terms of principle, the talks will further continue in the next meeting with the I&B ministry in New Delhi. The points which the FSA have been raising for the last 112 days were thoroughly discussed and the positive thing about this meeting too was that the government seems keen on dialogue to resolve the logjam. <br/><br/>They further informed that though the ministry has put no proposal yet to them, the issue being complicated at ideological and practical level needs time to arrive at a solution. However, they clarified that they have not softened their stand.<br/><br/>The agitating Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune students had called off their 18-day-old "hunger strike" in response to the government's communication inviting them for talks with the government. <br/><br/>Ranjit Nair, a representative of the FSA, which is protesting against appointment of actor Gajendra Chauhan as the FTII Chairman, clarified that although the relay hunger strike by the students was being withdrawn, the general strike that started on June 12 with a boycott of classes will continue till the issue is resolved.

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