Kolkata: On Friday, The Director and Registrar of Kolkata’s prestigious
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) resigned from his post.
The SRFTI institute is under the Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting. Three faculties and four students of the institute have been
suspended in connection with sexual harassment complaints in recent times.
SRFTI’s chairman Partha Ghosh said that SRFTI is currently facing few
problems. Director Debanjan Chakraborty and Registrar Anindya Acharya might
decide not to continue their jobs, so they resigned.
According to Ministry of IB sources, SRFTIs director Debanjan
Chakrabortys resignation application has been accepted already.
Amaresh Chakraborty, who is the Dean (Administration) of SRFTI, will
hold the post of institute’s director, until someone is appointed as a full
term director of the institution.
Meanwhile, a student from SRFTI in Kolkata has alleged that she is
facing victim-shaming inside the campus, following her complaint about sexual
harassment by three professors.
Last year in 2015, three faculty members were suspended
following complaints of sexual harassment by some students. SRFTI's
registrar Anindya Acharya said they had received complaints from some girl
students against the three faculty members. There have been four complaints
of sexual harassment, including one of a rape, that have been filed to the
internal complaints committee (ICC) headed by Putul Mahmood.
One
of the students alleging harassment, in particular, in an exclusive interview
to India Today on Tuesday, said that she was facing a “hostile
atmosphere inside campus”, and, in fact, “victim-shaming”. It also came to
light that the administration, which received a report from the
complaints committee, had not shared it with the complainant, but had shared it
with the accused professors.
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