Based on the requirement for research and training in urban development administration and the recommendations made by Nuruddin Committee, the Ministry of Health and Family Planning, Government of India in 1968, decided to establish Centres for Training and Research in Municipal Administration in different parts of the country. In pursuance of this policy, the Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies came into being. Since then it has been functioning with the support of the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India as well as the Government of U.P. and other constituent states.