NACIT and MAIT join hands

In a significant development for the national channel community, National Association of Channels of Information Technology (NACIT) and Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) have decided to come together and work on common issues affecting both the channel as well as vendors.

The two associations will now work on resolving matters of common interest and help partners to work along with vendors. As a first step, NACIT and MAIT have decided to hold a joint meeting once every quarter, which will act as an interface between the vendors on one side and the channel community on the other side.

Points out a visibly excited, NACIT president Saurin Shah, "By working together with MAIT we could take up issues with vendors directly and resolve them together. This is one of the first steps NACIT has taken for getting the channel closer to vendors. There are a lot of new initiatives being planned as there are new members becoming part of the association."

Interestingly, this important development happened far from Delhi--where MAIT is headquartered--as well as Mumbai--where NACIT is located. The venue was the annual IT Expo of Surat where both Saurin as well as MAIT executive director Vinnie Mehta came together on the same platform provided by the South Gujarat Information Technologists Association
(SITA).

Concurrent with the Surat expo, a meeting of the representatives of the channel associations from all over Gujarat was held at the Surat Police Station's conference room. Besides MAIT and NACIT, associations from Ahmedabad, Baroda, Valsad and Surat, too attended the meeting. The channel representatives put forward the major issues in front of the channel community and urged MAIT and NACIT to resolve them. 

Meanwhile, NACIT now plans to go all out to increase its membership base which currently stands at 25. According to Saurin, an intensive campaign will be conducted in the coming weeks to get more channels associations--especially from the north and the east--to come under its fold.

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MUMBAI