GITA holds elections

Gorakhpur IT Association (GITA), that has since long been in an inactive
mode, conducted its election last week. The last election held in GITA in an
organized manner was in 2005. After that no formal elections were held. The
newly elected committee of the association comprises Vishal Kumar of Microdot
Computers as President, Mukesh Tiwari of SIS Computer and Anand Singh of JMD
Computers as the VPs, Dinesh Singh of RKDK Group as Secretary, Umesh Aggarwal of
Supertech Distributors and Sanjay Gupta of Shilpi Computers as Joint Secretary,
Mahesh Shukla of Preeti International as Treasurer and Salim Khan of Infosys
Technology as PRO. "After a long time the elections were held. 114 partners
participated in the election procedure. The indefinite strike announced last
month by dealers in UP to protest against the increase in VAT has inspired us to
reform our association and make it active. We want an organized body to fight
our issues and from now onwards we have resolved to hold regular meetings,"
informed Sanjay Jalan, one of the members of the election committee.

Vishal Kumar, President, GITA said, "We are now making the association active
and our main concern is to focus on channel partners in Gorakhpur and provide
them all assistance for any issue. We will keep on organizing events at regular
intervals."

The association will make efforts to invite vendors regularly to Gorakhpur
and will hold vendor dealer meets to let partners know about new product
launches and technology from different principals. GITA has invited Asus to meet
dealers and focus on their newly launched laptops.