Addressing the members, outgoing ILNA President R. Lakshmipathy said that ILNA is proud of having rendered 62 years of service to Indian language newspapers. He stated that ILNA with its full-fledged office is set to serve its members in a better way. Inaugurating www.ilnaindia.org, the official website of ILNA, Lakshmipathy said that the new technology will certainly help members to communicate better which will ultimately help them in reducing the cost of publication. He thanked Shravan Kasyap for creating the website.

The executive meeting of ILNA unanimously elected Kundan Vyas, Chief Editor of Janmabhoomi, President of the Indian Languages Newspapers Association (ILNA). Other unanimously elected office bearers for 2003-04 are:

VICE PRESIDENTS: Sunil Dang, Rajdhani Times, V. K. Chopra, Gavakari GENERAL SECRETARIES: Chetanya Kumar Kasyap, Chetna (H.O.);Krishna C. Shewdikar, Shramik Ek Joot, Pushpa Sharma, Sach Ki Parchaiyan.

TREASURER: Pradeep Deshpande, Tarun Bharat (Belgaum)

members elected by rotation for three years Anil Agarwal, Amaravati Mandal, Uttamchandra Sharma, Muzaffarnagar Bulletin, B. Khambekar, Goda Pravara, Rajendra Sharma, Swadesh (Bhopal), Nazir Ahmed, Ujjain Doot, Chandrakant Bhave, Dauk, M. B. Wani, Yawal Samachar.

R. Lakshmipathy, Dinamalar, Bhau Sinkar, Kulaba Darpan, Rajeev Arora, Gandiva, Bal Ambekar, Jivhala, Ramesh Khot, Dainik Matsyodari, Ashok Mohan Jawdekar, Tarun Bharat, Lalit Shrimal,Dainik Madhyanchal

For the first time three members tied—M. B. Wani, Sheetla Singh and Manorama Mohapatra. On the basis of a lottery M. B. Wani was elected. Last year, M. B. Wani tied with Lalit Shrimal and lost. Surprisingly, last time loser Anil Agarwal received the highest votes.