The Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies (RCUES), Lucknow was established at Lucknow in the year 1968 by the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. It is one of the four such Centres in the country and RCUES, Lucknow has ever since strived to play a positive role in the activities which are organized under various interrelated programmes : Training, Research, Teaching, Consultancy Services and dissemination of information relating to the Urban Sector in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh