To prepare skilled diploma level Technician and practising engineer of Industry standards through Academic excellence by providing quality technical education through implementation of Competency based curriculum and effective teaching – learning processes. 

Government polytechnic Rajkot was established in the month of June 1964 by the government of Gujarat with an initial intake of 60 students in the civil engineering Diploma Course. This Polytechnic initially located at Rajkot. The new and fully equipped building for the Polytechnic was constructed later in the Year 1966, on a hillock near Aji Dam, a green lush surrounding ideal for the academics. This place is about 6Km. away from the Railway station.

Rajkot is a well-known industrial city of Gujarat state. Rajkot is famous for its diesel Engine industries in all over the India. It is situated on Bombay-Okha broad gauge line of western Railway and 8B national highway. Leading industries of the city are Field Marshal, K.Rasiklal & Co., Echjay Steel, Forge & Forge Pvt. Ltd. and developing industrial zone of Lodhika, Metoda and Shaper which are recognized for backward industrial area by Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation which gives high potentiality of Industrial growth.

To be a centre of excellence in technical education, in the region by imparting quality education and providing excellent platform for Employability, Entrepreneurship and Higher studies with moral values.

• To prepare creative and technically sound technocrats through innovative teaching - learning practices.

• To ensure maximum number of students are employed or go for higher studies or become entrepreneur.

• To emphasize value education, aiming to produce responsible and committed citizens.

• To inculcate ethical values in the students to contribute to the upliftment of society.