Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 14: Ram Khajuria, a founder member of Tawi Trekkers J&K was unanimously elected as President of the club in an election meeting held at Press Club, here today.
It may be mentioned here that 69 years old Ram Khajuria,the founder General Secretary of Tawi Trekkers J&K who served the club with distinction for a long period of 32 years also remained its Sr. Vice President for over an year. He is presently Secretary of Indian Mountaineering Foundation North Zone Committee and a member of Indian Mountaineering Foundation, New Delhi,the elite body for adventure sports in the country.
Earlier, the club welcomed its Patrons Ashwani Sharma, ex. MLA and Rahul Sharma, Chairman, Sprawling Buds ICSE School; Co- Chairman Zorawar Singh Jamwal, Secretary General Press Club, Jammu and Legal Advisor Prem Sadotra, a former General Secretary J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu.
Chairman of the club, Anil Goswami, former Union Home Secretary and Advisor of the club Prof Lalit Magotra, President Dogri Sanstha Jammu, however, could not attend the meeting due to certain unavoidable reasons.
The elections to the other office bearers and executive members were also conducted by Zorawar Singh Jamwal, Co Chairman of the club, in the presence ofan Observer from Mountaineering Association of J&K Yogeshwar Kumar, Vice President of the Association.
Whereas Rajesh Gupta was elected as Senior Vice President, Seema Kharyal and Mridhu Padhawere elected for the two postsof Vice President. Shawetica Khajuria,Abhimanyu Sherpaand Sakshi Magotra were also unanimously elected as General Secretary, Joint Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Club respectively. Kamal Kumar was again elected as Treasurer of the club.
Members elected in the Executive Body included Vivek Chauhan, Principal of Oriental Academy Hr. Secondary School; Everester Ram Singh, Everester Nirmal Kumar, Everester Sajjad Haider, Sumit Khajuria, a prominent mountaineer and promoter of adventure activities; senior members Narinder Singh, Sushil Singh, Sonam Sidharth & mountaineers Shashi Kant Sharma, Deepika Dutta and Sunil Chakharia.Anukampa Sharma of Udhampur and Shivani Charak, an international sport climber; Himani Choudhary were also unanimously elected in the executive body.
The new management team will be administered Oath of Office and assume charge of the club on October 2, the foundation day of the club which was formed 37 years back in 1982.
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