Sunday, July 18, 2010

P. Ramamurti Trade Union School & Research Centre foundation stone laid

In order to continuously promote ideological education and imparting training on strategic and tactical understanding to the organisers and cadres of progressive trade union movement, CITU has decided to establish a permanent Trade Union school and Research Centre at Saket, New Delhi as a memorial of the founder General Secretary of CITU and legendry trade union leader Comrade P. Ramamurti. The foundation stone of the building was laid by Comrade M. K. Pandhe in the presence of the Working Committee members from all over the country on 16th July 2010. The Working Committee has decided that each member of CITU will pay Rs.5.00 to mobilise fund to meet the construction and running cost of the building and the Institution.

The proposed schools will be set up on a 504 sq mts of land allotted by the government to the CITU at a concessional rate. CITU had made a payment of Rs 22 lakh for the piece of land.

"We are agreement-bound to complete the construction of the proposed school by September next year. Till then, our educational programme will continue from the CITU headquarters here," CITU All India Secretary Tapan Sen told.

Among other things, the school will provide basic knowledge about the economics and social science which are "crucially" required in a trade union, Sen said.

"It is to update the skill and understanding of the trade union activists to make them understand the changes in the situation, to make them able to analyze it, and at the same time to make them able to communicate to the people in a convincing manner and to organise them," he added.

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