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Which institution was founded by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis?

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Indian Statistical Institute

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was a pioneering Indian statistician, best known for developing the Mahalanobis distance and for his contributions to large-scale sample surveys.

He founded the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata in 1931, which grew into a premier centre for research and teaching in statistics, and its Calcutta unit later shaped the statistical basis of India's Second Five-Year Plan.

The Reserve Bank of India (1935) and the Planning Commission (1950) were set up by the government, not by Mahalanobis, and "Indian Economic Forum" is not a body founded by him.

Hence, the institution founded by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis is the Indian Statistical Institute.

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