Ganesh Jain, one of the six directors of the Music Records & Tapes industry, has been re-elected as the president of Indian Council of Impex for Films & TV Programmers (IFT) at the first meeting held recently. Talking on the re-election, members of the IFT commented, “We have elected Ganesh Jain yet again as his leadership is unquestionable. He rejoins us with more and different experiences under his belt which will serve our council, our people and our ambitions well.”

The Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPPA) has elected T P Aggarwal as its new president. Other members who were elected include Sushama Shiromanee (IMPPA senior vice president), Vinay Kumar Sinha (vice president) and Anand Girdhar (treasurer). A total of 16 candidates contested in the Ordinary Members category (regular producers) and five candidates in Associate Class in each of the groups, namely, Active Group headed by Shabnam Kapoor and Today’s Group headed by T P Aggarwal. Komal Gulati was the independent candidate who bagged seven votes.

Film producer Mukesh Bhatt has been unanimously elected as president of The Film & Television Producers Guild of India (Guild) at the first meeting of the newly-elected Guild Council of Management on 15 September.