Shorthand Dictation 80 Words per minute “ Film industry” , Test 5 Minutes with 5 Minutes Audio Dictation, Shorthand Outline and Text Matter. Test 4

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Mr. Speaker, Sir, I shall confine myself only to Demand No. 61 about the film industry. I wish I could /   congratulate the Ministry of  Information and Broadcasting  on its contribution to the film industry which, after textiles, has come to / be one of the biggest industries in this country. But unfortunately the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting except instituting a / few awards annually given  to certain  film artists, film directors, film writes, story writers and so on and so forth, / has not done much about it. In recent years, we have noticed that the film industry has  been passing through (100) a very big crises. If we go to studios of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, we will find  hundreds of film /  artistes, film technicians and film workers out of job. We will see that those places which were producing scores of / films have closed down; the studios are lying idle, and the artistes are without job. The Film directors are rotting / on the streets. If we examine the reason for all this unemployment and crisis in the film industry, we will /  find that the shortsighted policy of censorship by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has been responsible for it.

                I (200) am not one of those who believe that there should not be censorship of films and film directors should be /  given full freedom to produce whatever film they like, I am not one of those, who,  for a minute, will / stand for the vulgarity in the film industry. I am not one of those who believe that films should become /  a vehicle of taste and entertainment only and not for education. But we should remember that the film industry in / this country in the last few years has grown tremendously and it has contributed its own quota to the cultural (300) development of our country.  And it is for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to give guidance to the industry /  so that the industry may serve the cause of education, culture and national integration in this country.

                What we find / if that we have got a Film Censor Board. It is constituted of some very eminent people who seldom meet / and all the work is left to the administrative machinery of the film Censor Board. Some of  the films are /  censored in a way which hardly does credit to the Ministry. Not once but a dozen times has the Ministry  (400) been approached by the film industrialists, film artistes and film