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Welcome to CUTS CRC
CUTS Calcutta Resource Centre (CUTS CRC) became
operational in 1987. From the early days of its
inception till now, the centre has undergone many
changes in term of its focus areas. It started working
in the area of consumer protection and gradually added
trade, economics and environment issues to its scope
of work in the ensuing years. A few years later,
a specialised centre, titled Centre for International
Trade Economics and Environment (CITEE) was launched
to exclusively work in this area. Sometime later, a
network “South Asia Watch on Trade Economics and
Environment (SAWTEE) was launched jointly with other
NGOs in South Asia. The same was developed with
a view to strengthen the work on capacity building,
policy research and advocacy in the South Asia
regional bloc. In the later part of 1997, CITEE moved
to Jaipur and the dimension of Calcutta centre was
changed. From then on, the Calcutta Centre realigned
its focus to work on ‘consumer safety’ and
‘sustainable development’. It launched a new programme
called ‘Safety watch’ to focus on consumer safety and
another programme on Sustainable Production &
Consumption to focus on sustainable development.
To meet the demands of various developments taking
place across the globe, the centre since 2008 included
Energy, Regulatory reforms & Governance issues to its
core areas of function. Currently the Centre is
working focusing on the following programme areas:
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