No President’s rule at CAN

Executive committee for year 2004-2005

Computer Association of Nashik (CAN), held its seventh annual general meeting
(AGM) last month and appointed its new 11 member committee at Hotel Sai Palace,
Nashik. The unique feature of this committee is that, there is no President, VP
etc.

"We do not believe in having fancy designations. Instead the whole
committee must be strong. This year at the AGM, we have discussed on making our
two arbitration committees more active, which was developed to look into
specific problems within the dealer community and also between dealers and
users," said Sharad Mishra, member of CAN.

The association has been able to resolve around three cases in the dealer
community till now. It also plans to hold social events like blood donation
camps and increase interaction among the members. Presently, CAN have 125
members and plans to increase it to 175. In fact, the association has a family
meet-ing every year for its mem-bers. CAN annual exhibition is held every two
years and it plans to hold it this year also.

"We also plan to take up vendor issues, like for eg, last year we had
taken up the issue with Satyam which was related to margins and problems with
channel partners and this was resolved," added Mishra.

On contacting Vinay Chaud-hary from Vintech System Services and also a member
of the executive committee, he added, "Last year, we also had seminars on
products like motherboards, conducted by D-Link and also other vendors like HP
and Canon. There were also workshops on personality development for channel
partners. In fact on May 8, we are having a meeting, where like the other
associations, we will be bringing out a common price list for comprehensive and
non comprehensive AMC’s."

CAN has already invested in an office premises and plans to further invest in
making a database of old drivers at its office for channel partners. "These
drivers are not easily available today and therefore our members could come and
collect the CDs and avail of this facility," said Mishra.

Nancy Sudheer

Mumbai