TOI's Vineet Jain is the new PTI Chairman

Vineet Jain, Managing Director, The Times of India (TOI) Group, has been elected as the new chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI), the leading news agency of India. The announcement was made at the 62nd annual general meeting of PTI shareholders.

Jain succeeds Vjiay Kumar Chopra, Editor, Punjab Kesari Group. Before joining the PTI Board as a Chairman, Jain was the Vice Chairman in the PTI Board. Jain has earlier served as the Chairman to PTI Board in 2002-2003.

M.P. Veerendrakumar, Chairman and Managing Director, Mathrubhumi Group, has been elected as the Vice Chairman for the year. He is a former Member of Parliament, Union Minister and has also served as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS).

Other members on the board of PTI are Vijay Kumar Chopra (Hind Samachar), N. Ravi (The Hindu), R. Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Aveek Kumar Sarkar (Ananda Bazar Patrika), Shekhar Gupta (Indian Express), K.N. Shanth Kumar (Deccan Herald), Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Jagran Prakashan), Hormusji N. Cama (Bombay Samachar), Riyad Mathew (Malayala Manorama) and Sanjoy Narayan (Hindustan Times). The Directors who don't belong to the newspaper industry are Professor E.V. Chitnis, Justice S.P. Bharucha and Fali S. Nariman.