BIRLA VISHVAKARMA MAHAVIDYALAYA · A PREMIER INSTITUTION OF CVM · FOUNDED IN 1948 · Motto: Work is Worship · First Approved by Government as grant paid College · More than 16000 engineers Graduated. · Degrees offered – B.E., M.E. and PhD The starting days The infrastructure of the college was generously designed for three year degree programme with an intake of 150 students every year. The main building (now known as A Block) had class rooms and laboratories. Workshops and heat engine laboratory, drawing hall, hydraulics laboratory and boiler house were separately constructed. Shri Gordhanbhai I Patel of M/s Gordhandas Desai & Co was authorized to proceed to Europe and UK to purchase equipment for workshops, laboratories and surveying. The college thus started with the best of the equipments. BVM produces a baby - a Search Institute: In 1979, BVM was called upon to establish an institute working entirely for research, developmgnt, training and extension work in the area of renewable sources of energy particular for rural application. Dr. R M Dave took great pains in establishing the Jyoti Solar Energy Institute. The institute(later renamed as Sardar Patel renewable Energy Research Institute) has now developed into a full - fledged institute warking independently in the vital area of renewable energy. Infrastructure · Land : 18.96 acres · Builtup area : 35704.00 sq.m.