FTII row: Students, I&B officials to hold talks in Mumbai today

In yet another attempt to break the 109-day-long deadlock at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), officials of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and students of the institute, agitating for the removal of TV star and BJP member Gajendra Chauhan as its chairman, will hold talks in Mumbai on Tuesday.

The talks are taking place even as the students on Monday said several leading academicians and professionals from Silicon Valley have expressed solidarity with them.

Officials of the ministry will be holding talks with the students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) who called off their relay hunger strike on Sunday after the government agreed to come to the negotiating table.

The meeting will take place at the office of the Films Division in Mumbai at 11 am tomorrow, Vikas Urs, spokesman of the FTII Students’ Association, told a news agency in Mumbai.