The well-known Indian Statistician Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistical Institute – ISI at Kolkata in 1931. He started the first post-graduate course in statistics at Kolkata University in 1941.
- National Sample Survey-NSS (now known as National Sample Survey Organisation – NSSO) proposed by
- Mahalanobis was started in 1950 and the data collection started in India.
- In 1953 using operations search system in ISI he had framed outline of second five year plan.
- Thus his contribution in the development of statistics in India was significant.
