Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 9: In keeping with its policy of handing over reigns of management to younger lot of the club in a phased manner and also involve maximum number of lady members to run the club’s affairs Tawi Trekkers J&K, unanimously elevated Shawetica Khajuria, an international sport climbing judge, as President and Sonam Sidharth, a mountaineer, as General Secretary of the club in an election meeting held here today.
Arti Sharma, a senior member was unanimously elected as the Senior Vice President; Mridhu Padha was retained as Vice President. Other members elected unanimously were Shilpa Charak, an international sport climber and a mountaineer as Joint Secretary and Shashi Kant Sharma as the new Treasurer of the club.
Whereas Senior members Sushil Singh (Samba), Sunil Chakharia (Bishnah) and Anukampa Sharma of Udhampur were retained, Shobha Rajput, a pioneer sport climber of J&K (Samba), Seema Kharyal, a celebrated athlete of Jammu, Sakshi Magotra (Kishtwar) Binder Pal Singh, Anu Sharma, a prominent sport person (Akhnoor) , Sourav Deep Singh, a mountaineer (Surinsar), Prerna Charak (Rajouri) and Sanjeevani Bhardwaj of Mendhar (Poonch) were unanimously added as 11 Executive members of the club to manage various activities of the club
Elections were conducted by Ram Khajuria, a founder member and outgoing President of the club in the presence of an Observer from Mountaineering Association of J&K, Rakesh Goswami, President of the District Mountaineering Association, Jammu. In the end a resolution was proposed by Zorawar Singh Jamwal, Co -Chairman of the club and unanimously passed by the newly elected body for nominating Ram Khajuria as an Advisor of the club.