Rakesh Goswami Elected President of District Mountaineering Association, Jammu

25-06-2023: Rakesh Goswami of Shivalik Mountaineering & Adventure Sports Club, Jammu has been unanimously elected as the President of the District Mountaineering Association,  Jammu in an election meeting held at Press Club Jammu. Sonam Sidharth of Tawi Trekkers J&K was elected as General Secretary of the Association.

Whereas Shawetica Khajuria of Tawi Trekkers J&K was unanimously elected as Sr. Vice President, Navneet Gupta of Snow Trail Mountaineers, Jammu  and Sushil Singh, an avid trekker were elected as Vice Presidents of the district association.

Shilpa Charak, an international sport climber and mountaineer was also unanimously elected as Joint Secretary while Narinder Singh, a senior mountaineer was elected as Treasurer of the Association.

Five members of the Executive body which included Sakshi Magotra & Sunil Chakharia, both trained mountaineers; S. Binderpal Singh,a trekker, Renu Sharma, a sports teacher and Gaurav,a trekker were also unanimously elected.

Whereas Ram Khajuria, senior Vice President of the Mountaineering Association of J&K, was the Observer Sumit Khajuria, vice President of the Mountaineering Association of J&K, was the Returning Officer for the elections.

 Sonam Sidharth, the newly elected General Secretary who has been the main organizer of the Himalayan Trekking Programmes organized by Tawi Trekkers J&K, while addressing the members thanked them for the trust they had imposed in him and announced that very soon a meeting of the Association shall be held to devise ways and means to give more thrust to adventure activities especially trekking to make trekking a mass movement in Jammu district and to produce more quality mountaineers and champion sport climbers.