Centre of Indian Trade Unions

CITU
Full name Centre of Indian Trade Unions
Founded 1970
Members 3.2 million
Affiliation WFTU
Key people A K Padmanabhan, President
Office location New Delhi, India
Country India
Website www.citucentre.org

Centre of Indian Trade Unions (Hindi: भारतीय ट्रेड यूनियन केन्द्र), CITU is a National level Trade Union in India politically attached to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The Centre of Indian Trade Unions is today one of biggest assembly of workers and classes of India. It has strong unchallangeable presence in the Indian state of Tripura besides a good presence in West Bengal and Kerala. They have an average presence in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

4th CITU West Bengal state conference poster

According to the provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, CITU had a membership of 3,222,532 in 2002.[1]

Tapan Sen is the General Secretary of CITU and A. K. Padmanabhan is the president.

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It runs a monthly organ named WORKING CLASS. Tapan sen is the general Secretary and A K Padmanabhan is the president.

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Coordinates: 28°37′46.5″N 77°14′18.4″E / 28.629583°N 77.238444°E / 28.629583; 77.238444


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