NITO appoints Arun Jain as president

Tough

competition prevailed this year amidst the North Bengal IT Traders

Association (NITO) members, as the association conducted its

elections on September 24, 2011. However, the only exception was the

election of Arun Jain of Sonal Marketing, who was elected as the

president, securing a win over Rakesh Sharma of Digitech by over 70

votes in the total of 104 votes casted.

In the

portfolio of secretary, Shankar Dhar of Protech Computers lost to

Pankaj Dutta of Laptop Bazaar by a narrow 5 votes margin. The same

scenario prevailed for the post of treasurer where Subir Bhattacharya

of Balaji Infotech secured a nominal win over Monojit Ghosh of Ma

Tara Digital.

However,

what

came as a shock for the association was Dhar losing to Dutta by a

narrow margin. “Dhar has been phenomenal in shaping up NITO. He was

a pioneer in making NITO a success from the scratch. I am really

amazed to find Dhar losing in the elections, however, people have

cast their choices and we (NITO) should accept our member's

choices,” said Manoj Baid, member, NITO.

The

Executive

Committee (EC) is deemed to be elected shortly and this time, the

strength of

the committee will be hiked to 21 from the prevailing strength of 15

with an expected 10 new faces to show up in the committee.

However, in

a

radical stance immediately after the elections, NITO has decided to

finally join CITA. Speaking on the same, Jain said, “We will be

joining CITA shortly after the EC

is finalized and want to cooperate with all IT associations in the

East for the betterment of trade.”

Besides,

Jain

will be focusing on CSR programs by NITO in his 1 year tenure.

Computer donations to schools and training facilities in the area

are on top of NITO president's mind along with the objective to

make Siliguri greener by plantation efforts. Also, NITO is poised to

cooperate with other local trade bodies in Siliguri for overall

betterment of the trading scenario.

“We will be

cooperating with HMA and another merchant association with the

objective of improving trade terms and bring in more business access

for the entire trading community,” Jain added.

Besides the

focus over CSR, NITO will also be taking up the route to increase

membership in North Bengal with an enhanced focus on Sikkim.