Computer Association elects new leadership

By A Staff Reporter, Kathmandu, Dec. 29: A new central working committee has been elected in the Computer Association of Nepal (CAN) Federation under the leadership of Ranjit Kumar Poddar.  The 29th Annual General Meeting and 14th Congress of the Federation held on Saturday had elected a new working committee while Poddar was elected the President of the organisation unanimously.

Earlier, the assemblies of 74 districts and seven provincial committees of the CAN Federation were conducted. Khushal Regmi has been elected as the senior vice-president of the federation. Similarly, Rajendra Prasad Aryal from the institutional group, Sarita Singh from the women's group and Hark Bahadur Seti and Dhruvaraj Sharma (Sudip) from the district group have been elected as vice-presidents.

Likewise, Chiranjeevi Adhikari has been elected as the general secretary of the federation and Naveen Joshi has been elected unopposed as the treasurer. Suman Lal Pradhan, Buddha Ratna Tuladhar and Pratap Sapkota have been elected as secretaries while Bhupal Das Shrestha, Narayan Prasad Shrestha, Bhupendra Mainali and Karna Raj Paneru have been elected unopposed as the secretaries. The federation's central working committee includes seven secretaries. 

The elected members are Vishwa Ram Balami, Agma Malakar, Srijana Shrestha, Subhash Khadka, Bikram Singh, Divya Tara Shakya, Niranjan Patel, Keshav Prasad Bhattarai, Hempal Shrestha, Mina Aryal, Thakur Kumar Shrestha, Umesh Raghuvanshi, Deepak Shah, Sarita Neupane, Shekharnath Dulal, Saruna Shrestha, Chintamani Bastola, Tulsi Ram Pandey, Dr. Abhijeet Gupta, Dipendra Poudel, Mani Raj Pandey, Ram Kishore Rawal, Raju Kattel and Reena Shrestha. The committee has nominated Bhanubhakta Sharma as a member.

Prabhat Shrestha has been elected as the coordinator of the Accounting Committee and Hridaya Man Shrestha and Bikrant Karki have been selected as members of the committee.

Newly elected president Poddar has said that the new working committee will work with a collective spirit. According to him, the federation will play a role in the significant development of this sector by coordinating with professionals, students, businessmen and related bodies of the information technology sector.

In addition, he pledged to take special initiatives to produce skilled information technology manpower in Nepal, to work for the transformation of information technology startups into industries, to do special work in the promotion of information technology businesses, and to work across the country to reduce the digital divide of information technology.