CMDA holds its 18th AGM

Mumbai: With an objective to form a new committee and address issues pertaining to IT trade in the region, Pune- based CMDA (Computers & Media Dealers Association) conducted its 18th AGM at Fortune Hotel in Lavasa on Saturday, July 4. The AGM saw participation from over 170 members.

In keeping with its tradition of handing over the post of President to the working VP of the committee, Naresh Lalwani of Cyber Net IT was appointed as the new President of CMDA. Shishkant Satbhai was elected as the VP while Hemant Naik will be the Secretary of the new formed committee. Other office bearers include Yogesh Godbole as Joint Secretary, Manoj Shah as Treasurer and Sanjay Adhav as Joint Treasurer. Debu Banerjee, Ashutosh Karkhanis, Sanjeev Pathare, Jayant Shete, Ratnesh Rathi, Bharat Gopuskar and Deepak Agarwal will be the other active members of the new committee.

Talking about the AGM, President Naresh Lalwani mentioned, “We have discussed several issues pertaining to IT business during the AGM. While we looked at ways to resolve the service issue irking the System Integrators. Procedures related to cheque payments for smooth flow of business were also discussed with the distributors.”

CMDA has initiated the concept of SI forum in 2008 and the 18th AGM saw the association continuing with its endeavor to address service and replacement issues piling up with the system integrators.

Added Lalwani, “The SI forum helped us in resolving service issue with HP, LG and Viewsonic. All the Vendors were proactive in addressing the issues and steps have been taken by them. In addition meeting with Distributors helped us streamline the business process,” he added.

Taking lesson from a recent incident where an employee of a Chennai based distributor had fled with the blank cheques issued by the dealers as part payment, CMDA has initiated a process that will extend safety for the dealer community. “During our meeting with the distributors we have charted common guidelines to be followed with regard to cheque payments to distributors, in order to ensure smooth operations between both the parties,” added Lalwani.

In addition to this CMDA is also planning to come out with an IT directory that will provide relevant information about corporates to partners who indulge in corporate dealings.