"......ISABS we established in 1971, almost 15 years after application of behavioural science in India(Lynton 1960) .....During the course of Conference entitled "Developments in Experience Based Learning" held at Pune between December 05 to 06, 1971 lead to the emergence of ISABS. The Conference was attended by 20 professionals -- Dharni P.Sinha, Fred Massarik , KK Anand, K.J.Christopher, Margaret Roderick, E.H.McGrath, Jim Filella, Alan Batchelor, Donald Bilby, S.N. Pandey,Pulin Garg, S.C.Daftadar, Paul Siromoni, Francis A. Menezes and Dilip K. Lahiri. The members shared their experience of behavioural science experiments in educational and industrial systems in the country......"

"……..The founder members present decided to include colleagues who were not present in the conference but had made distinguished contribution in the field like Nitish R.De, Udai Pareek, Ishwar Dayal, Abad Ahmad and Somnath Chattopadhyay….."

"………The founder members of ISABS had one thing in common i.e. they all had gone through T-Group ("T" for Training) experience in the United States of America or in India….."

"The establishment of ISABS was widely welcomed by those interested in the behavioural science movement in this country."

----Dharni P. Sinha