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Who founded the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Calcutta?
1. JM Sengupta
2. Subhendu Sekhar Bose  
3. RN Mookerjee
4. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis 

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Correct Answer - Option 4 : Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis 

The correct answer is "Prasantha Chandra Mahalanobis".

  • Indian Statistical Institute is a public research university.
  • The motto of this institute is " University in Diversity".
  • The headquarter of this institute is Bonhoogly ( Baranagar), Kolkata, West Bengal.
  • It has four subsidiary centers in Delhi, Bengal, Chennai, and Giridih.
  • The primary activities of ISI are research and training of Statistics, development of theoretical statistics, and its application.
  • ISI comes under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation of the government of India.
  • Founded by Professor P.C. Mahalanobis in Kolkata on 17th December 1931, the institute gained the status of an Institution of National Importance by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1959.

  • The key areas of expertise of ISI are -
  1. Statistics
  2. Computer science
  3. Mathematics
  4. Operation Research
  5. Information science.

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