Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Institute of Management Technology and Research (PDIMTR), Nagpur known initially as the Department of Management Technology, was established in the year 1980.

The college is managed by Shri Shivaji Education Society.

The society was setup in 1931-32 by late Dr. Panjabrao Deshsmukh at Amravati in Vidarbha,Maharashtra, A fledgling society then, has now developed to embrace a vast world of education which includes the faculties of Arts, Commerce, Agriculture, Law, Medicine, Engineering, Management etc.

Over the years, society has been prescribed over by thirteen different heads, the present President being Shri Vansantrao Dhotre. Shri Shivaji Education Society, with it's more than two hundred and sixty educational institutes, spread over eleven districts of Vidarbha and supported by a yearly budget of rupees one hundred crores, aptly deserves the title -"Pride of Vidarbha."

A prolific teaching and non-teaching staff of around five thousand, guide and assist over one lakh ten thousand aspiring students carve out a brilliant future for themselves under the aegis of this society.