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HAPPENINGS Bhavin Kothari of Ganko, who had jointly presided as election officer in conducting the elections, recounts his experience in the run up to the Mumbai Optical Association as it is today MUMBAIOPTICAL ASSOCIATION ELECTION RESULTS committee. I had my hesitations, due to my prior commitments but the young kid in me said “Yes”. From the outset, we knew that the stakes were pretty high and we were in the spotlight. First ever elections, a total of 26 candidates representing all facets of the Mumbai Optical Landscape in the middle of a pandemic. Vipulbhai and I decided to firstly ensure that we have a free, fair and transparent elections and lay down the ground rules on what could be achieved with the resources available to us. We decided to honour the constitution of the MOA and keeping its spirit alive, we took legal advice to guide us forward. The decision to do A s a young kid in the 90’s in our Kalbadevi office, I distinctly remember this day when a group of well respected individuals were meeting with Motabhai and dad in our office. I was introduced to everyone but kept out of the meeting. I was told later that evening over dinner, that it was a meeting of extremely well respected pioneers from the Mumbai optical industry and that this was a discussion on the formation of an association to bring together voices from all parts of the industry into one forum. As a wide eyed liberal boy, I thought the idea was a brilliant one and had discussions with the family about the same. I realised with a changing business environment, this was also an idea whose time had come. This would finally bring us onto a common platform. Therefore, it was a great moment of pleasure and honour, when I received a call from Prafulbhai asking me to be an Election officer along with Mr. Vipul Shah to conduct the first ever elections for the MOA Managing 64 VISION PLUS INDIA EDITION