The Department of Home was established in 1960 and it is one of the first Department to be established and given the huge important task of coordinating relief and rehabilitation works for thousands of Tibetan refugees who fled from Tibet to neighbouring countries of India, Nepal and Bhutan. In 1981, by considering the expanding works of the Department, and to give legal standing to its activities, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s CENTRAL TIBETAN RELIEF COMMITTEE (CTRC) was formed and registered as Charitable Society under Indian Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 and effectively act as the Relief and Development Wing of Home Department, Central Tibetan Administration…read more »