BITOAA gets new team

Bhopal: Bhoj Information Technology and Office Automation Association (BITOAA) held its annual elections on September 5, 2009. About 70 percent of the 140 members were present at the time of the appointment of a new committee. As has been the tradition since the inception of the association, the committee was appointed unanimously.

Amitendra Shrivastava was appointed President; Sandeep Babbar as VP; Pradeep Motwani as Secretary; Vikas Barve as JT Secretary and Shail Sharma as Treasurer.

Shrivastava has quite a few plans in store for the association. Sharing details on a few, he said, “We have undertaken a new initiative in which we have started going to meet all members individually to understand their problems. A list of these will then be compiled and then we will see how we can help in enhancing the profitability of partners. Another thing we will aim to do is generate a level of trust amongst partners and increase the understanding among partners. This will help in tackling the prevailing issues in the market such as payment defaults etc.”

Apart from these partner-oriented initiatives, the new team will also take up the issue of entry tax with the government. “Presently there is a one percent entry tax on IT goods coming into Madhya Pradesh from outside. We want to make a request to the government to abolish this tax as it makes us less competitive,” expressed Shrivastava.

The next meeting of the association is on September 25, 2009 during which time members will get their calendar ready for the next year. “While all the regular activities will go on as usual, such as the annual expo, this time we are putting a thrust on technology seminars. These will be organized by us, and we will be looking at roping in sponsors for the same,” he shared.

It may be recalled that last year BITOAA had announced its intention of joining Confed-ITA, a body of 10 association in Tamil Nadu, working for the welfare of IT dealers. While talks were on with PN Prasad, President, Confed-ITA for the same and BITOAA agreed to join the northern chapter of the body, formally no steps were taken. This year it will be on the agenda of the new team; to make BITOAA formally a part of the northern chapter of Confed-ITA.

 

The new team

President: Amitendra Shrivastava

VP: Sandeep Babbar

Secretary: Pradeep Motwani

JT Secretary: Vikas Barve

Treasurer: Shail Sharma