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It says that the fact that this report has not been made publicly available despite an RTI application raises further questions about the legitimacy of the whole process: “We are concerned about the inaccessibility of this report especially in light of the recent announcement of the government of shutting down three of these units [CFSI, FD and NFAI, including their archives] as early as January 2022.”At the time of going to the press there were 843 signatories to the letter, including actor Naseeruddin Shah and Nimisha Nair, Nandita Das, lyricist-writer-comic Varun Grover, filmmakers Nishtha Jain, Subasri Krishnan, Anand Patwardhan, Gitanjali Rao, Payal Kapadia, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, Pushpendra Singh, Batul Mukhtiar, Vani Subramaniam, Haobam Paban Kumar, Priya Sen, Ramchandra PN, Anamika Haksar, Gargi Sen, Pankaj Rishi Kumar, Sourav Sarangi, Lipika Singh Darai, Supriyo Sen, filmmaker-editor Arjun Gourisaria, editors Sameera Jain and Hemanti Sarkar, academic Anjali Monteiro, and editor and artistic director of International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) Bina Paul.
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Group of filmmakers raise concern about I&B ministry’s proposed restructuring of public institutions
