Sir Bhavsinhji Polytechnic Institute, Bhavnagar

Sir Bhavsinhji Polytechnic Institute is one of the Pioneer Institute in Diploma Technical Education side since 1949. Our Institute is AICTE (All india COuncil for Technical Education) approved running various diploma courses under CTE and affiliated various diploma courses under CTE and affiliated with GTU (Gujarat Technological University).Institute is located in the heart of the city and first choice among student for their admission. To become a premier academic institute in the field of Diploma Engineering by producing technical professionals to take-up the challenges & serve the society and industry. 1) To provide industry oriented and value based technical education. 2) To adopt innovative teaching learning process by highly qualified, competent, self-motivated faculties and supporting staff members. 3) To achieve best known level of institute-industry linkage with the help of alumni and society. This Institution owes its origin to the Late Maharaja Saheb Sir Krishnakumarsinhji, who first decided to establish a technical institute at Bhavnagar in the memory of the occasion of his accession to the throne on the 18th April, 1931 and donated a sum of Rs. 5 Lacs on 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 technical training in Bhavnagar was accrued from other sources. The Institute was established in commemoration of his late father BHAVSINHJI and was commenced from 15th July, 1949 vide Saurashtra Government, Department of Industry & Commerce, Rajkot Resolution No. 36 dtd.23/4/1949 by introducing Automobile Engineering Course with 6 students in the first batch. Gradually, the activities in the Institute expanded and multiplied. Today it has grown to the size of being one of the biggest Polytechnics in India, with the intake capacity of 972 (including MHRD) students in the first year of Diploma. Inherently, the Institute has magnificent building and sufficiently spaced laboratories, workshop, library. With the change in trend of technological and engineering development, the Institute has attempted to synchronize all corresponding activities in terms of quality development programme for staff, new courses, building, laboratory innovation and modernization of equipment. The Institute has corporate reputation due to equilibrium and dynamic co-ordination The Institute holds huge land and premises of its own and covers an area of about 20 Hectors. It is situated in an open healthy and quiet locality known as Vidyanagar, far from the centre of busy areas. This locality is surrounded with an educational campus of Bhavnagar University and colleges of Science, Arts, Commerce. B.Ed., Law and various other post-graduate departments of the University. The campus is well equipped with important amenities such as Classrooms, Drawing Halls, Laboratories, Seminar Hall, Library, Computer Centres, Work shops, Hostels, Canteen, Indoor as well as Out door Sports facilities etc.