| Full name | Centre of Indian Trade Unions |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1970 |
| Members | 3.2 million |
| Country | India |
| Key people | M K Pandhe, President |
| Office location | New Delhi, 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 states of West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura besides a good presence in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. It has presence in almost all of the Indian states.
According to the provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, CITU had a membership of 3,222,532 in 2002.[1]
Chittabrata Majumdar was the General Secretary of CITU from 2003-2007. 12th Conference (held in January 2007) of CITU re-elected him as its General Secretary. But he died on 20 February 2007. The General Council of CITU met on 17 May 2007 and elected Mohammed Amin as its new General Secretary.
It runs a monthly organ named WORKING CLASS.