Demonstration at city film institute

By Our Correspondent GUWAHATI, July 12 – A host of senior film producers, directors, actors and other artistes of the Assamese film industry, including employees of Jyoti Chitraban Film Society, staged a sit-in demonstration in front of the studio at Kahilipara, demanding regularisation of salaries and recruitment of a permanent secretary for the film society.The demonstration, which was staged on Friday under the banner of Jyoti Chitraban Employees’ Union, also demanded of the government to ensure a proper working atmosphere for local producers and directors in the studio.The employees’ union further warned that if early and adequate measures are not initiated to resolve the problems of the studio and its employees, then the matter would be taken up with the State Cultural Affairs Minister. Talking to this Correspondent, Deepankar Sarma, secretary of Jyoti Chitraban Employees’ Union, informed that the employees of the society have not received their salary since January, which is making it difficult for the employees to concentrate on their professional obligations.“We have been staging such agitational programme on a consistent basis but to no use. If our pleas are not addressed, we would intensify the agitation to an unprecedented scale,” Sarma warned.“The State government must come up with something concrete in order to give some kind of facelift to the film society, otherwise this would cost the film industry very dearly in times to come,” he said. The sit-in demonstration was participated by veteran actors like Pranjal Saikia, Moloya Goswami, Dara Ahmed and Eli Ahmed among others.Sarma, while stressing the on need for the recruitment of a permanent secretary to run the film society, further stated that the present secretary, who is on deputation, is not being able to give his best to the studio, which is further aggravating the scenario.“The film studio is engulfed with many problems,” he pointed out. source: assam tribune