pune a proposed increase in the fee for the acting course and capping the age limit for admissions at 25 are on the agenda for the academic council meeting of the film and television institute of india scheduled for friday in mumbai the agenda has raised the hackles of the students who call it an attempt to turn the institute into a moneyspinning companythe new agenda reportedly proposes to increase the fee for the acting course to over rs 3 lakhin 2002 the fee was increased to rs 24000 after this the governing council decided that per year only 10 of the fee can be increased then in 2010 the administration said that acting screenplay art direction and tv courses are selffinancing courses we opposed on the basis that the rule should be same for all the then chairman sayeed mirza agreed that all courses should be subsidized says an ftii alumnusit has been proposed to limit the upper age for ftii admissions to 25 years for general 30 years for scst and 28 years for obc harishankar nachimuthu ftii student body president says on one hand the agenda talks about age limit while on the other hand they are felicitating a student who joined ftii when she was 36the students also expressed fears that the entire objective of the institute was being altered this is a centre for excellence but with high fees students from only affluent families will seek admission the institute will cease to be a cultural and socioeconomic melting pot says another studentreacting to this ftii director bhupendra kainthola says according to the guidelines we can increase fee by 10 every year all courses in ftii are subsidized direction editing sound and camera courses are subsidized by 95 if these subsidies were taken away the fee for these courses which is now around rs 50000 would be rs 67 lakhapart from this an increase in the hostel and prospectus fees a change in library rules outsourcing of ftii entrance exam and a change in entrance exam for tv wing have also been proposed