The Information and Broadcasting ministery has announced some severe funding cuts for the entertainment industry this year. The Hindustan Times reports
"In a list of 27 schemes prepared by the Planning Commission with the help
of the Finance Ministry for discontinuation from the next financial year,
the worst hit are expected to be Film and Television Institute of India
(FTII), Pune and Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. Eight
schemes related to the institutes including scholarship and exchange
programme may not get any central funding. The younger generation of film lovers may miss globally well-known cartoons, as the government is also likely to stop funding for the International Documentary, Short and Animation Film Festival. The film had failed to generate much interest among children, an official said."
And what would it be funding instead??
Planning Commission officials said the focus would be equipping media, film and
entertainment industry with new technologies. "We have proposed government help
to set up community radio and television centres. Also covering entire country
with digital television by end of the plan period is another priority of the
government," a commission official said.
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