The Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management is an autonomous graduate business school in Kolkata, India. It is the first institute in India to offer an MBA degree. The seeds of IISWBM were sown in 1942, when the British government, needing qualified labour officers for its facilities, especially its ordnance factories - the Second World War was on - decided to start a social welfare training institute affiliated to Calcutta University and located close to it. Dijendra Kumar Sanyal was appointed its chief. After Independence, this evolved into the IISWBM, set up in April 1953, with Sanyal as its founder-director. IISWBM was set up in collaboration with the Government of West Bengal, the University of Calcutta and the business community of West Bengal to promote management education. The MBA, MHRM and MPSM courses are autonomous and affiliated to the University of Calcutta; the MBA program has been affiliated to the university for more than 60 years. This institute once served as a mentoring institute for the much-reputed IIM C (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta) and DoMS IIT(ISM) Dhanbad.The institute celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 2003 and the Government of India released a commemorative stamp of IISWBM for the event. The foundation stone of IISWBM was laid by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India and Dr. B. C. Roy, the famous chief minister of West Bengal. The Institute boasts of alumni in several prestigious organizations both in India and abroad. The alumni are respected for their knowledge, commitment, loyalty and ethical values in this fast-changing world. Mr. L.N. Mittal, Chairman and C.E.O - ArcelorMittal, Mr. Bhaskar Das, Executive Director - Times of India, Mr. Sudhir Jalan, President AIMA, Mr. C.V. Chandrasekharan, MD - Balmer Lawrie Group, Mr. Ashok Mukherjee, Senior GM (HR) - TCS, Mr. Abhijit Das - Distinguished Technology Research Analyst are among our distinguished alumni.