In 1981, a young bright student who had freshly passed Inter Science [present day 12th Science] and was utterly frustrated, happened to meet Prof. Dr. Vishwanath D. Karad sir at College of Engineering, Pune. The student was on the verge of committing suicide as could not get admitted to an Engineering institute in spite of securing good marks due to less number of seats.

Prof. (Dr.) V. D. Karad sir convinced him that one can always reach the greater heights even in other fields and refrained him from the extreme act. But the seemingly small incident disturbed him to the core. It set him thinking on what can be done to overcome the dearth of opportunities of professional education.

The incident of capable students being deprived of desired technical education highlighted the surge to do something for the society where ‘will’ existed but ‘way’ was yet to be explored.

Finally, he wrote an article which turned out to be a milestone in the history of Technical Education in Maharashtra.

On 1st May 1983, then Minister of Technical Education of Maharashtra, Mr.Sudhakar Naik met Karad sir and asked his thoughts on technical education, and had an elaborate discussion. Then Chief Minister of Maharashtra was Hon’ble Shri Vasantdada Patil too was well convinced of Karad sir’s genuine efforts and honest passion.

A historic decision was taken by Maharashtra by initiating the formation of NINE private Engineering colleges of Maharashtra… Starting MIT… the First Engineering College in Pune city after 125 long years.

It was sheer kind cooperation of many that they saw an honest teacher’s struggle and dedication and came forward to help out in the initial formation days. Adv. Bhaskarrao Avhad offered the use of his law classroom and a small office on Karve road for the distribution and collection of admission forms for the first batch of MIT, Pune. Shri. Uttamrao Patil, Secretary of Shivaji Maratha Society who lent a few classrooms so that we could begin.

Thus ‘MIT’ began in the year 1983, on 5 August 1983.