Vineet Jain, managing director of the Times of India group, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Press Trust of India (PTI). MP Veerendrakumar, chairman and managing director of Mathrubhumi Group, was elected vice-chairman following the 62nd Annual General Meeting of the PTI’s shareholders in New Delhi on Monday.
Jain, who was vice-chairman of the board, succeeds Vijay Kumar Chopra, editor of Punjab Kesari group. Besides playing a key role in the growth of Times of India and other publications of the Bennett Coleman and Company, Jain is credited with the group’s successful forays into new media?"-internet, radio and television. He served as PTI chairman earlier also in 2002-2003.
Veerendrakumar is a former member of Parliament and a former Union minister. He is also a former president of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) and is closely associated with media bodies in India and abroad.
Besides Jain and Veerendrakumar other members of the PTI Board are Vijay Kumar Chopra (Hind Samachar), N Ravi (The Hindu), R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Aveek Kumar Sarkar (Ananda Bazar Patrika), Shekhar Gupta (Indian Express), KN Shanth Kumar (Deccan Herald), Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Jagran Prakashan), Hormusji N Cama (Bombay Samachar), Riyad Mathew (Malayala Manorama) and Sanjoy Narayan (Hindustan Times). Three non-newspaper directors are Prof EV Chitnis, Justice SP Bharucha and Fali S Nariman.
