P.C. Mahalanobis was affiliated with several organizations. In 1931 he founded the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta. In the next two decades he founded the National Sample Survey (1950) and the Central Statistical Organization (1951) to serve as statistical agencies for government data collection. He served on the Planning Commission of India from 1955 to 1967, where he applied his mathematical reasoning to Indian industry.
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