GITA holds election after 3 years

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.

Sharing his views on the focus of the association for the year ahead, 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."

He also informed that 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.

Members in the election committee were Arun Mishra of AS Infosys, Sanjay
Srivastav of Microdot Computers, Sanjay Jalan of Jalan Distributors, Rajiv Arya
of Logic PC World and Sharad Khetan of KI Solutions.