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Follow UsRupesh Sharma of Computer Touch was
unanimously elected the President of the
Computer Dealer
Association (JCDA). The elections took place on March 27 with a
poor
turnout of 35 percent. Sharma was chosen unopposed during the
election procedure. The others who were elected unopposed were Nirmal
Singh of C-Tech Computers as General Secretary, Sandeep Goswami of
Softech Computers as Jt Secretary, Suresh Juneja of Superdot
Computers as PRO and Amit Sakhuja of Amit Enterprises as Treasurer.
The names of the executive members comprise Rajesh Gupta, Gurpreet
Singh, Bhupesh Kumar and Sukhwinder Singh. The voting process took
place only for electing the new VP in which AS Kumar of Kumar
Computers emerged as the winner. He defeated Sukhwinder Singh of DDS
Systems by securing 28 votes in comparison to the latter's 14 votes.
The only fresh face this time is Suresh Juneja, elected as the PRO of
the association.
The new president told The DQ Week
about his plans for the betterment of the association. “We will
have our first meeting this month where we would discuss about
electricity and VAT rates prevailing in Punjab. We plan to go to the
government regarding this issue. Partners are losing out their money
on a regular basis because of these issues. There is power for only
three hours a day. It has become very difficult to work. A lot of
times customers go back disappointed. And also,
in Punjab needs
to be at par with other states to continue a healthy business,”
said Sharma.
On issues of increasing the popularity
of the association, he further added, “Our main focus will be to
add more members to our kitty, maintain discipline and guide or help
them to do good business in the computer industry.”
The association proudly boasts of its
120 registered members but sadly only 42 members turned up to cast
their vote. “We have elections every year and normally the voter
turnout is around 45 to 60 percent. This year it was even worse. May
be because of the fact that not many people take interest in the
activities of the association. It is indeed very unfortunate,”
pointed out Rajiv Khanna, Media Advisor, JCDA. Elaborating on the
issue of member participation, Khanna added, “We have elections
every year in JCDA. The idea of that is to encourage more and more
people to come forward and help the unit in dealing with problems
faced by dealers. But still, people are reluctant to come to the
forefront.”
Despite all of this, according to IDC,
JCDA is one of the top three IT Associations in the country working
for the welfare and in the interest of their member computer dealers
in Jalandhar for the last 10 years.