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Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Also known as ISI Kolkata
The Indian Statistical Institute at Baranagar on the northern edge of Kolkata, founded by P. C. Mahalanobis in 1931 and declared an Institution of National Importance by Act of Parliament in 1959. ISI runs the National Sample Survey framework, publishes Sankhyā, and operates centres at Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Tezpur and Giridih. Its graduates designed the planning, census, agricultural-pricing and election-forecast machinery of independent India. The Giridih campus is a mathematical research centre; the Delhi centre hosts the Economic Research Unit.
- Periods
- British Colonial Age, Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Learning & scholarship
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 22.649, 88.376
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- Founder ofPrasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
P. C. Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistical Institute at 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Baranagar, Kolkata, in December 1931 — originally a Statistical Laboratory in his rooms at Presidency College. Parliament declared ISI an Institution of National Importance in 1959. From Baranagar he ran the national sample surveys and designed the Second Five-Year Plan.
- Site withinKolkata
The Indian Statistical Institute at 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Baranagar, sits in the northern suburbs of Kolkata. Founded in 1931 by P. C. Mahalanobis — originally in his rooms at Presidency College — the ISI moved to its own campus in the 1950s and was declared an Institution of National Importance by Act of Parliament in 1959.
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