Jaipur hosts two expo's in one week

For long channel partners in Jaipur have been complaining about the lack of
activities in the association, though there is existence of three associations
including Rajasthan Computers Traders Association (RCTA), Raj IT Forum and the
newly formed Raiser Plaza Computers' Traders Association (RPCTA). Now, the
associations have suddenly emerged from their inert phase and Jaipur is hosting
two IT expo's within a period of one week.

RCTA's IT exhibition finally commenced on September 4. There were around 70
stalls and vendors like Canon, Samsung, LG, Intel, HP, Acer, NComputing, BenQ,
Wipro, Epson, Cyberoam, NCS, IBM, Intex,Tally, Busy, Esys, Supertron, i-Ball,
Zebronics, TVSE, Bit Defender and Quickheal participated.

This week IT Voice with the support of RPCTA is also organizing a five-day
expo from September 9 to September 13 and the event will showcase IT, telecom
and electronic products. The organizers of the event have invited RAJCOMP (a
state agency, established by the Government of Rajasthan, BSNL, TATA Indicom,
RICEM and Data Infosys) to participate.

Having two expos at the same time in an upcountry market indicates that the
associations in the market are in fierce competition with each other and
conducting simultaneous events could be an objective to downplay each other
rather than bringing awareness at the customer level.

When inquired with, Tarun Taunk, Organizer IT Voice Expo elaborated, “There
will be 150 stalls for IT as well as telecom at or expo. All the vendors are
participating except Intel as we have confirmation of AMD. RCTA had planned to
organize their expo in mid-August and we had decided on these dates much before
them. Because RCTA did not plan their event it is now almost coinciding with our
expo.”

Taunk further added that though the expo of RCTA is being organized ahead of
IT Voice Expo, he is confident of attracting large number of visitors. “The
event will be held at Ambedkar Circle which is strategically located to draw
large footfalls, whereas, Jawahar Kala Kendra, where RCTA is organizing, is
located far from the city and is mainly for painting exhibitions,” he added.

Commenting on the same, Deepak Sharda, Secretary, RCTA said that IT Voice
Expo is an exhibition for IT, telecom and consumer goods but the expo by RCTA is
a solely an IT exhibition.

RCTA states that they have 70 partners on board while IT Voice Expo claims to
have the confirmation of 150 channel partners. The saga of two expo's shows that
Jaipur clearly remains a divided market.