GITA holds election after 3 years

GORAKHPUR, INDIA: 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.