12 Crore Loss to FTII As Students Don’t Finish Course in Time: CAG

The report said students live in the hostel without paying fees beyond the scheduled completion of their course.

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The Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) has suffered revenue loss of nearly Rs 12 crore on account of students not completing their courses on time and overstaying in hostels without paying any fee, the CAG said on Friday.

The students continued to be on academic roll and in hostels without any payment of fees/hostel charges after the prescribed tenure of their courses, resulting in revenue loss of Rs 11.83 crore.

CAG report

The report said that between 2008 and 2012, 315 students were admitted for six long-duration diploma courses with scheduled completion time of two and three years.

However, of these 315 students, 212 students or 67.30 percent were still on roll as on 31 March 2016 due to non-completion of their academic projects.

The CAG noted that the institute neither has any specific rule to extend the tenure of such students, nor were approvals taken for such group extensions from the academic or governing council. Also, tuition and hostel fees were not charged after the scheduled completion of course.

Of the total revenue loss of Rs 11.83 crore, Rs 2.78 crore is due to FTII not charging fees for the extended duration and Rs 9.05 crore due to non-recovery of hostel fees for overstay.

The FTII functions as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

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