Rajkot association gets office bearers

RAJKOT, INDIA: In the general interest of the local channel community, members of Rajkot Computer Traders Association ( RCTA) have resolved to revamp the IT body. While earlier the association existed with with only committee members, now RCTA has elected office bearers to give direction to the association.

Kalpesh Rughani of Divyang Infoworld has been elected as President of the association, Sarju Patel of C Point as VP and Sameer Dassani of Anil Infotech as General Secretary. Kirit Patel of PC Systems has been appointed as Joint Secretary and Praful Desai of Anjali Computer Media as Treasurer. The advisory committee consists of Gopal Patel of Wiptech Peripherals and Saudhan Desai of D’Soft.

The other members of the committee are Haresh Virani of NetLink Infocom, Kishor Patel of Sudarshan Marketing, Nilesh Shah of Macintosh e-Gallery, Dharmesh Patani of Nibble Infolink, Paresh Ajmera of Delta Systems and Peripherals, Saurin Parekh of Spire Systems, Mehul Mehta of Omkar Software and System, Rajeev Upadhyay of Om Enterprise and Amit Kothari of Arihant Computer House.

Established in 1996, RCTA was a strong apex body of IT traders in Saurashtra and Kutchh, which covers the region of Rajkot, Junagadh, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Amreli, Porbander, Surendranagar, Gandhidham, Bhuj and other neighboring regions. However, members feel that not having office bearers led to the downfall of the association.

Now, the general management and control of RCTA and internal working methodology will be carried out by the elected committee members. The members of the committee are elected by the general RCTA members, each representing different sectors of IT industries like software, hardware, peripherals, consumables and web designing. “We have formed various teams of all the committee members and sub-committees like Social Committee, Marketing Committee, Administrative Committee and Management Committee to perform various tasks like organizing exhibition, trade fairs, roadshows and seminars,” said Dassani.