Vijay Kumar Chopra, Chief Editor of the Punjab Kesari Group of newspapers has been unanimously elected as Chairman of Press Trust of India on Friday, September 7. Vineet Jain, Managing Director of Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited(BCCL), the publisher of Times of India, was elected for the post of Vice-Chairman of the news agency.
The elections took place at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the news agency following the company’s 71st annual general meeting.
The other PTI Board members are Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran), K N Shanth Kumar (Deccan Herald), Riyad Mathew (Malayala Manorama), Aveek Kumar Sarkar (Anandabazar Patrika), M P Veerendra Kumar (Mathrubhumi), R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Hormusji N Cama (Bombay Samachar), Praveen Someshwar(Hindustan Times), Justice R C Lahoti, Deepak Nayyar, Shyam Saran and J F Pochkhanawalla.
