ITTA, Pondicherry nominates new office bearers

Information Technology Traders Association (ITTA), Pondicherry, has nominated
a new set of office bearers for the current year. At a recently held AGM, the
members of the association have chosen Suresh Kummar Soni to be the President of
the association, while PN Prasad has been nominated as Vice President; M Magesh
as Secretary; Prabhakar as Joint Secretary and T Sivakumar as the Treasurer. The
new office bearers took up charge this month, as the second officially elected
body.

Formed in 2002, the association has a couple of immediate challenges to
tackle: containing payment defaults, increasing business from government
departments, protecting resellers' interest in business while dealing with
distributors/vendors, strengthening the association through various activities
which include membership drive and educating the channels on 'profitable
business'.

"Last year, we met many of the objectives we had set for the year
including bringing in uniform pricing policy for service (both AMC and per
call), increasing the membership, generating revenues through expos,
strengthening the association and bringing the channel community closer. Still
we have lot more to achieve," said Suresh, the newly-elected President.

ITTA is upbeat about its functioning and performance. Proud to be listed and
ranked at number 19 in the latest DQ Channels-IDC survey for channel
associations of India, PN Prasad, Vice President, ITTA said, "It was a
pleasant surprise to see ITTA, Pondicherry ranked at #19 in the all-India
association survey."

S GOPIKRISHNA