Mangalore IT Dealers Association (MITDA) installation ceremony of new office bearers and executive members was conducted on 13th October in Hotel Deepa Comforts in Mangalore. In this event, the office bearers were elected and the list includes G Sai Rao of Phoenix Systems as President, Arun Prabhu of Netlink Computers as Vice President, Sudhir Shetty of Vaibhav Systems as Secretary, K Gopinath Pai of G S Distributors as Treasurer and H Murali of Arya Enterprises as Joint Secretary. Sadashiv Bhandari of Alpha Systems, Sweekrath Karkera of Digital Planet, Alphonsus Dsouza of Compunet Systems, Vinay Karat of Automation Technology and Sujay Monteiro of CATS were elected as executive committe members.
The outgoing president Ketan Chandrana of Manhars, outgoing secretary Melwyn Dias of Phelix Systems and outgoing treasurer Arun Prabhu were felicitated for their outstanding contribution for the association. Gopinath Pai and Sujai Monteiro were felicitated for their contribution to the association since the inception. Ashwin Naik was felicitated for winning the national championship in motor sports.
The present president Sai Rao in his speech indicated that all the members of IT dealers association are registered under VAT and customers who deal with members will have the support of the association for any issues.