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Follow UsNEW DELHI, INDIA: Rajasthan Computers Traders Association (RCTA) is once again facing flak from Raj IT Forum, regarding the “non-professional” attitude of the association. The forum has accused RCTA of charging different amounts of membership fee from distributors, which reveals the lack of uniformity in the policies of the association.
Elaborating on the variations in the membership fee, Raj IT Forum has circulated a mail among Jaipur dealers stating that RCTA has charged Rs 11,000 from Compuage Infocom, Rs 2,100 from Rashi Peripherals, Rs 2,100 from Supertron, Rs 2,100 from Fortune Marketing, and other regional distributors of Sony, Seagate, Mron and HCL have paid Rs 1,100 or 2,100.
Raj IT Forum has further accused RCTA of collecting money from companies but not conducting any activities for the welfare of Rajasthan trade business.
The forum also alleges that even after eight months of election, no general body meeting has been conducted so far.
Clarifying the whole issue, Raj Kumar Poonia, President, RCTA said, “The membership fee of RCTA is Rs 2,100 but there is no flat rate. If any discussion is going on with distributors at different levels and for some reason the company is eager to pay us a higher amount, what is wrong in that? We are not forcing anybody, but at some levels of negotiation, if the company is willing to pay extra for the welfare of the association there is noting wrong in that and we welcome it.”
Speaking on the comments made by members of Raj IT Forum, Poonia said, “It is their opinion that RCTA is not professional. The forum is a group of members who have the liberty to express their opinion.”
Speaking about the members of Raj IT Forum, Poonia remarked, “Arvind Modi is a respectable member of RCTA, but he wants to be elected as the President unanimously which did not happen in the last few elections. He was President of the association a long time back but since he has not been chosen by members in this election he expresses his annoyance through such forums. Rupesh Kedia was earlier in the IT business of Jaipur but now he is not a member of RCTA and neither is he involved in IT business. He is doing business in China and visits Jaipur regularly. When he is here for months, he engages himself by playing politics in the IT business. Kailash Gupta is one of the members of Raj IT Forum who has been actively helping us in carrying out activities and agendas. He always has a positive attitude and gives suggestions rather than criticism.”
Replying to the remark made by Poonia, Arvind Modi of Bits & Bytes, who is currently holidaying in Europe, clarified, “I never wanted to become President. Poonia has deliberately chosen this time to make such comments knowing very well that I cannot respond as I am abroad.”
Throwing light on the issue of absence of any general body meet after the election, Poonia said that the new tenure had started from April 2009, and since RCTA is busy preparing for the IT expo to be held in July, it is not possible to conduct a general body meeting at the same time.
“We can only have one event at a time as a general body meeting also needs fund allocation. Currently we are putting all our efforts into organizing the expo. Once that is done, we will organize the meet,” said Poonia.
When contacted, Kailash Gupta from Raj IT Forum stated, “RCTA has been active and is organizing its IT expo in the coming months. In that respect there is no issue. But there are only six executive members of RCTA who are responsible for everything and among the six only one or two are active. In my opinion, RCTA should have formed a constitution of 17 members and should have delegated all the members with different tasks so that their actions would have been more visible.”
He further said that Raj IT Forum is an open platform. It is not restricted to RCTA members and the main concern is to raise and solve the issues prevailing in the market.