This Institution owes its origin to the Late Maharaja Saheb SirKrishnakumarsinhji, who first decided to establish a technicalinstitute at Bhavnagar in the memory of the occasion of his accessionto the throne on the 18th April, 1931 and donated a sum of Rs. 5 Lacson 15th March, 1932.  This amount grew to Rs.12,16,968/- in Feb. 1948. In addition to this, a sum of Rs.9,97,000/- earmarked for technicaltraining in Bhavnagar was accrued from other sources. The Institute wasestablished in commemoration of his late father BHAVSINHJI and wascommenced from 15th July, 1949 vide Saurashtra Government, Departmentof Industry & Commerce, Rajkot Resolution No. 36 dtd.23/4/1949 byintroducing Automobile Engineering Course with 6 students in the firstbatch.  Gradually, the activities in the Institute expanded andmultiplied.  Today it has grown to the size of being one of the biggestPolytechnics in India, with the intake capacity of 600 students in thefirst year of Diploma and Advanced Diploma Courses.  From 2004,initially two degree courses [1] Electronic & Communication and [2]Production Engineering were introduced.