September 27th
Pune Film Institute is also getting privatised
P. Sanil kumar
alappuzha : Moves have been made in the green room to privatise film and television institute of india,pune. The details about privatisation lies in the report of a private agency appointed by the government to upgrade institute to global standards. The report was submitted by the Hariyana branch of Hewitt Associates, an american based multi national consultancy firm.
The privatisation and the proposed hike in the fees will make the common man inaccessible to the courses in the institute. Only people from the elite class of the society can afford to study in the institute if it is privatised. There is a chance of subsidised courses getting changed to self financed fee structure.
The institute has groomed people like John Abraham, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shaji N Karun, Sunny Joseph, Venu, Beena Paul, Santosh Sivan, Resul Pookkutty for Indian Cinema. A detailed project report has been submitted to globalise the 50 years celebrating institute. In the report is mentioned that the huge amount required to upgrade the institute physically and academically will be achieved through the step by step privatisation of the institute.
There are now four subsidised courses and eight self financed courses in the institute. The aim is to raise fund for the upgradation from the proposed self financing courses.
The institute was started in 1961 and the training for Doordarshan was started in 1974. This plan for the privatisation happened as a proposed solution for the long time struggle of the students to upgrade the basic infrastructure including hostel.
Courses like an eighteen months program of MBA in Business entertainment, a twelve months program in Advertisement film making, a twelve months program in TV journalism, six months program of preservation and restoration of films are proposed in the report.
The proposed fees structure for the new courses are 4.5 lakhs, 7.5 lakhs, 7 lakhs, 3.93 lakhs for Indian students and 9 lakhs, 15 lakhs, 14 lakhs, 7.86 lakhs for foreign students.
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