BITA’s IT show gets patriotic

BITA, which will be holding its seventh IT Show 2004, will focus on being ‘Being
an Indian and Patriotism’ with the theme ‘Aao Hum Bharath Ko Aur Aage Badaye’.
For the event it has invited Shiv Khera, writer of international bookseller ‘You
Can Win’, who will be showcas-ing his 10 minute movie on India on all the
three days sponsored by Jetking Institute.

"Shiv Khera has a mission this year to change India therefore, he would
be showca-sing this movie upto 15th August 2004 at all such exhibi-tions. This
movie goes with our theme this year therefore, was apt. There will also be a
blood donation camp conducted on 26th January 2003, which has been supported by
Su-raktam Blood Bank.

There will be also a lot of political representation at the inauguration of
BITA’s IT show 2004. The association, like every year, is having a rally, a
day before the inauguration. At the rally there will be Baroda’s district
collector Bhagyesh Jha, Mayor NV Patel and MLA Jitubhai Sukdiya.

"The purpose of this rally is to bring about an awareness about the
show. The rally will start at nine in the morning going on for two and half
hours around the main areas. There will be 100 cars, 200 scooters in the rally
along with a music band and a pilot jeep. The cars would be of the stall owners
and decorated with banners etc. There would also be prizes given out to the best
decorated and informative car," said Dinesh Patel, President, BITA.

This year 125 stalls have been booked compared to last years 80 and the crowd
expected at the event is between 1.5 to 3 lakh at the end of the three days.

Patel claimed, "There have been 100 percent bookings with 18 dealers
still in the waiting list compared to last years 78 percent booking. Dealers
from neighboring cities like Bharuch, Surat, Ahmeda-bad and from Mumbai dealers
like Jitubhai will be participa-ting in the event

Intel would be taking up a complete dome and is also the main sponsor; all
its eight GIDs would be having their stalls here. The vendor would also be
conducting presentations all throughout the day on techno-logy, its roadmap and
also with an emphasis on education, as students would be attending the event.

Nancy Sudheer

Mumbai