Whistling Woods may have a new campus by 2014

The Supreme court has asked the institute to vacate the present campus

Film producer Subhash Ghai's film institute, Whistling Woods International, which has faced a major setback after the Supreme Court ordered Ghai to return the land to the Maharashtra state government, may have a new campus by 2014.

The institute, as per the apex court's directive, will have to vacate the present campus, spread over 5.5 acres, by July 2014.

"You are not finished when you lose. You are finished when you quit. And we will not quit. Whistling Woods as an institution will continue. If it comes to that we will vacate this campus and make appropriate relocation arrangements as warranted and in line with the high standards of this campus and the high education standards we maintain,"said Chaitanya Chinchlikar, Vice President, Whistling Woods International.

The institute also has affiliations with global film schools including --- Deakin and Griffith Universities in Australia; Bradford College in the UK; Syracuse University in the United States and New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Asia.

The land for the institute was allotted to film-maker Ghai in 2000 on which he has invested over Rs 50 crore so far.

The court also directed Ghai and Whistling Woods to vacate 14.5 acre of land immediately which shall be resumed by the state government.

The court's order had come on a PIL by Rajendra Sontakke and four other agriculturists of Latur and Osmanabad districts alleging "gross abuse of power" by Deshmukh in allotting the land.