Govt Polytechnic, Visakhapatnam

About Govt Polytechnic, Visakhapatnam

It is one of the premier institutes imparting technical education to the thousands of students in North coastal Andhra region. It was established in the year 1956. It functions under the wing of Department of Technical education, Andhra Pradesh. Initially, it offered three courses in engineering branches -Mechanical, Electrical and Civil. In due course, three and half year sandwich courses in Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering were introduced and these courses were later merged with Chemical Technology and Mechanical engineering respectively. Later, in the year 1966 a course in pharmacy and in 1981 a course in metallurgical engineering were introduced.

Located in the heart of city of destiny, Govt. Polytechnic has a credit of harbouring and nurturing skill based education to the student community.

Govt. Polytechnic, Visakhapatnam has always been in the forefront in relentlessly working for the improvement of the relations between industries and polytechnic. Our college has been bagging very good ranks in E-cet and winning Pratibha Awards year after year. We have good academic records and our students winning awards in IPSGM. We have conducted Inter district Polyfest through which the creative and imaginative skills of the students got exposed to the world.

Vision
Endeavoring to create finely refined professional craftsmen to cater to the needs of the industries in India and abroad and imbuing the workforce with updated skills and technical prowess and also make them prepared for higher education and research.

Mission
To achieve the blossoming of skill based learning with the integration of technology with industry and being the repertoire and hall mark of sheer creativity and academic excellence.