APlus Computers promises to pay pending dues

Mumbai: Mumbai-based APlus Computers, which was in news recently for not paying dues to its partners in Mumbai, has now committed to pay the same within a year. Mehul Gandhi, owner of APlus recently held a closed door meeting with members of Trade Association of Information Technology (TAIT), and promised to start paying dues starting next month.

The company owes close to Rs 25 lakh to as many as 17 channel partners, as per the last count of TAIT. Mehul Gandhi is currently operating his business from Dubai.

"We held a meeting with Gandhi this week, after some of the members complained that he was not making their payments for the last nine months," said  Pravin Dhoka, spokesperson of TAIT.  It is said that Gandhi's decision to shift his business in UAE backfired, especially in view of the global slowdown, as a result of which he made losses. But, now his business is said to be stable. He promised TAIT committee members that he will soon start paying back the partners in instalments.

Read the complete report in The DQ Week dated March 30 - April 5, 2009.