Mahendra Mohan Gupta elected PTI Chairman, Cama Vice Chairman

Mahendra Mohan Gupta, Managing Editor of the mass-circulated Hindi daily Jagran, and Hormusji N Cama, Managing Director of Bombay Samachar, were today unanimously elected Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively of the Press Trust of India.
Gupta, who is also the Chairman and Managing Director of the Jagran Prakashan that publishes 34 editions of the daily besides other publications in Hindi, Urdu, English, Gujarati and Punjabi, succeeds K N Shanth Kumar of Deccan Herald.
He and Cama, whose daily is the oldest continuously published newspaper in India from 1855, were elected unanimously at a meeting of the PTI Board following the company's 66th Annual General Meeting (AGM) here.

Besides having served a six-year term as a member of the Rajya Sabha, Gupta has formerly been President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS), Indian Language Newspapers Association (ILNA) and Chairman of the news agency UNI. He has also been a member of the Press Council of India.
Cama has also served two terms as President of the INS and is currently the Chairman of the Readership Studies Council of India apart from being on the board of Audit Bureau of Circulations and Council for Fair Business Practices. He has been member of the Press Council for two terms earlier and has again been nominated to the Council this year.

Besides Gupta, Cama and Shanth Kumar, members of the PTI Board are: Vineet Jain (Times of India), Vijay Kumar Chopra (Hind Samachar), N Ravi (The Hindu), Aveek Kumar Sarkar (Ananda Bazar Patrika), M P Veerendra Kumar (Mathrubhoomi), R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Riyad Mathew (Malayala Manorama), Sanjoy Narayan (Hindustan Times) and Viveck Goenka (Indian Express).
The directors from outside the newspaper industry are Prof. E V Chitnis, Justice S P Bharucha and Fali S Nariman.