Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry

B. D. Bagh, Kolkata, which was once the residence of Lord William Bentinck, the first Governor-General of India.

The corporate members are drawn largely from the sectors of agriculture, engineering, textiles, leather, fast-moving consumer goods and customer services, and are not confined to West Bengal and the Eastern Region, but are from all over India.

Its objects included[2] – On 30 November 1857, as a result of the Indian Mutiny, the Chamber appealed to the Government of India to send "a force of Europeans, either sailors or soldiers" to defend Akyab, as it considered the Arracan Battalion not to give enough protection.

The Economist of 5 August 1876 reported that The Chamber of Commerce of Bengal have resolved "that it is expedient for the government to suspend clause 19 of Act 23 of 1870, which makes it obligatory on the Indian Mint to receive all silver tendered for coinage... and that during such suspension it be unlawful to import coined rupees.

Whereas the officers and committee members had previously been the owners of capital, they were now more likely to be professional senior managers.