Anupam Kher steps down as chairman of FTII

New Delhi: Veteran film actor Anupam Kher on Wednesday resigned as the chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India,  due to his preoccupation with his international assignments.

In his resignation letter to Information and Broadcasting Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Kher said that due to his commitment to the show he will be stationed in the US for nearly nine months between 2018 and 2019 and then for a similar period for a minimum of three years more. 

' It has been an honour, a privilege & a great learning experience to be the Chairman of the prestigious FTII. But because of my international assignments I won't have much time to devote at the institute. Hence decided to send my resignation,'Kher said.

 'Given this assignment it would not be fair to me, the students and management team, for me to hold a position of such responsibility and accountability, without being actively involved in the operations," he said in his resignation letter. 

Kher had replaced Gajendra Chauhan, who had a controversial tenure, as the head of the Pune-based institute in October last year. (UNI)