NEW DELHI: A team of senior I&B officials will visit FTII on Wednesday after a two-month-old strike reached a flashpoint with the police being called on campus to disperse students who had "gheroed" director Prashant Pathrabe.

The officials will assess the ground situation and submit a report to the ministry.
The bone of contention taken by the agitating students was the administration's decision to conduct assessment of incomplete diploma film projects of the 2008 batch, which they called "irrational, unjustified and unfair." The "gherao" which began on Monday afternoon was lifted only around midnight after Pathrabe agreed to put on hold the assessment exercise till Tuesday morning.