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Founded by Professor P.C. Mahalanobis in Calcutta in 1931, the institute
gained the status of an Institution of National Importance by an
act of the Indian Parliament in 1959.
Teaching activities are undertaken mainly in Calcutta and
the two centers in Delhi and Bangalore. Offices of the Institute
located in several other cities in India are primarily engaged in
projects and consultancy in Statistical Quality Control and Operations
Research.
Main campus
The 30-acre Calcutta campus of the Indian Statistical Institute
is located on the Barrackpore Trunk Road (B.T. Road). The two sections
of the campus - the office complex and the residential complex -
are separated by a public road.
The principal buildings in the office complex are the Main Building,
the Geology Building, the Library Building, the Administration Building
and the Amrapali.
The residential campus includes, apart from several staff quarters,
the Guest House, the Medical Welfare Unit, the Boys' Hostel, the
Research Scholars' and ISEC hostel, the Ladies hostel, and parts
of several service units.
The Central Library of ISI
The Central Library at Calcutta has over 200,000 volumes of books
and journals. It receives about one thousand scientific and technical
journals annually. The library has developed a separate collection
of books and journals in Mathematics and Statistics known as Eastern
Regional Centre of NBHM collection, out of the grants from
the National Board of Higher Mathematics.
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The IIMC official website) |
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