The Institute established in 1963 with 8 Trades & Total 216 Sanction Seats in Bharuch and shifted to Ankleshwar in 1966. Now its running with 36 Trades & 2952 Sanction Seats. It covers 21 Acres of land with 10952 Square Meters of construction area having Admin Building, Workshops, Staff Quarters and Hostel.

The institute is also working as "Nodal Institute" for Bharuch and Narmada District.

Ankleshwar is known for its industrial township called G.I.D.C. (Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation), which is one of the biggest industrial township in Asia. Ankleshwar also has an office of ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited).

The 158 year-old Golden Bridge connects Ankleshwar to Bharuch across the Narmada on the station front while a new bridge constructed connects the highway.

Today, Ankleshwar has over 5000 big and small chemical plants. These chemical plants produce products such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, and paint.The pharmaceutical company, Cadila Healthcare, has a plant to make active pharmaceutical ingredient in Ankleshwar.The multi-national firm Hoechst India Limited which has become defunct has a plant to make Rabies vaccine, Pharmaceuticals and Agro Chemicals. Thus Hoechst sold its Rabies vaccine division to Chiron Behring Vaccine India which is now taken over by Novartis. The Pharmaceutical plant is now run by Sanofi Aventis and the Agro Chemical plant is now run by Bayer.

All these above mentioned industries as well as domestic consumers are supplied eco-freiendly piped NATURAL GAS by Gujarat Gas Company Limited.