90% of my colleagues uneducated, an embarrassment: Censor chief

Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chairperson Leela Samson has claimed that 90 per cent of the panel members clearing movies in India are "uneducated" and an "embarrassment". Samson, a noted Bharatanatyam dancer who was appointed CBFC chairperson in 2011, has said that 200 such panel members — "largely insensitive individuals, politically ambitious people and party workers" — are handpicked by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting every two years, and that the board is left to face the flak for their "irresponsible" decisions.

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