Actor-director Kamal Haasan and film-maker Gautam Ghosh were on Thursday included in the >Shyam Benegal committee set up by the Union government to look holistically into the functioning of the controversy-ridden Central Board of Film Certification, making it a six-member panel.

The >Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry had set up the panel on January 1 to take a relook at the functioning of the Board.

It had been felt that more regions of the country should be given representation on the panel and so it had been suggested that Mr. Haasan and eminent directors Shaji Karun and Mr. Ghosh should be included in it, Mr. Benegal said. He and other members of the committee, including film-maker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, advertising veteran Piyush Pandey and film journalist Bhawana Somayaa last week met Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley in Mumbai.