Type of College

Government - Autonomous

Accreditation & Recognition

AICTE

Affiliation

Gujarat Technological University

About Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Engineering College

Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Engineering College, Vallabh Vidyanagar was established in 1948.

Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Engineering College was established in 1948 from donations made by the Birla Education Trust on the behest of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the first Home Minister of independent India. The college was inaugurated by Lord Mountbatten, the Governor General of India on 14 June 1948, and rose to prominence under the stewardship of Prof. Junarkar and Prof. K.M. Dholakia. It was one of the first few colleges in India that adopted the progressive credit system of relative grading in India. The college has awarded degrees to over 17,000 graduates, and has its alumni spread across the globe.

BVM became the grant-in-aid institution of the State Government  in 1958 and slowly grants from the State as well as Central Government started trickling in. The Ministry of Works & Housing  Govenment of India, Started a Rural Housing Wing from 1st January 1959. Principal of BVM,  was named as the Ex-office Director of the Wing. The wing was later renamed as a Regional  Housing Development Center. The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India recognized BVM in 1984 as one of the centers for training in-service engineers in Environmental Engineering through postgraduate programmed of M E (Environmental Engineering) (the programmed was run by the institute earlier since 1979.)

The infrastructure of the college was generously designed for three year degree programme with an intake of 150 students every year. The main building (now known as A Block) had class rooms and laboratories. Workshops and heat engine laboratory, drawing hall, hydraulics laboratory and boiler house were separately constructed. Shri Gordhanbhai I Patel of M/s Gordhandas Desai & Co was authorized to proceed to Europe and UK to purchase equipment for workshops, laboratories and surveying.

The college thus started with the best of the equipment.

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  • Library
  • Sports
  • Laboratories
  • Auditorium
  • Classroom
  • Placement
  • Workshop
  • Multipurpose Hall
  • N.C.C.
  • N.S.S.
  • Computer Lab

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