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The Indian Insurance  Institute, Kolkata, a pioneer of its kind in India was  founded in  1930 by eminent nationalists Sri Surendranath  Tagore, Sri S.C. Roy  &  others  with a  view to  boost up  the  morale  of  the indigenous Insurance Company’s  to  bring them  out from  the pitfall  of unequal  competition of foreign insurers backed by alien rulers. Later, luminaries like Dr.N.R.Sarkar ,Sri H.C.Chakraborty, Sri A.C. Sen  became the  Presidents  of  General  Secretaries of  the  Institute at different  times  and   played  an  important  role  in   spreading  insurance  education.  The   Indian  Insurance  Institute, along with  some   others  were   instrumental  to   establish Federation of Insurance Institute which came to be known as Insurance Institute of India, Mumbai  in 1955. Since then it (Indian insurance Institute)  is  functioning  as an affiliated local institute under III Mumbai as its Kolkata Chapter.