Confed-ITA to elect team for 2009

Confed-ITA will be electing its office bearers and executive committee for 2009. This is the second election Confed is holding post its formation in April 2007. The present executive committee (EC) will gather in Tirupur to decide the next executive working committee and office bearers-including the President. 14 associations under Confed's belt have been given the responsibility to elect the next executive working committee. “Previously when we elected the first working committee of Confed, it was decided that the office bearers, including the President, would be elected on the round-robin basis. 14 associations under Confed are conducting their own EC meetings to nominate the team for the next term,” informed S Karthikeyan, President, Confed-ITA.

He also said that the current executive committee will gather to decide on the next term based on the deliberations of the EC meeting in every association.

This time Puducherry, Vellore and Chennai associations will elect the President of Confed-ITA, Erode and Salem will elect the VP; Madurai and Dindugal-Secretary; Trichy-Treasurer; Tirunelveli, Tuticorin and Kanyakumari-Joint Secretary and Coimbatore, Nilgiris and Tirupur-another Joint Secretary.

“Before the next EC meeting of Confed, the new team will be decided and they will work on Confed's annual summit, with the guidance of the current executive committee,” Karthikeyan added. It may be noted that during Confed's first summit in November 2007, it was decided to make the summit an annual event. The elected new team will take over during the forthcoming annual Confed-ITA summit that has been proposed for this November.

“We have decided that every year during the summit the newly elected team would take over the proceedings from the existing team. The new Confed team will be appointed from Jan 1, 2009 to Dec 31, 2009,” informed PN Prasad, VP, Confed-ITA. “Guidelines to choose the office bearers were discussed during the EC meeting in Kanyakumari. All the associations will elect the next team of Confed office bearers and EC members based on those guidelines,” he added.