The Mulki Ramakrishna Punja Industrial Training Institute came into existence in November 1984, with the collective and painstaking efforts of Shri. Mulki Ramakrishna Hari Punja, an eminent industrialist, who conceived the idea of starting a technical training institute, with other prominent personalities of Mulki under the Mulki Education Society.

The Institute, which was started in view of providing jobs/self-employment oriented technical education to rural students, grew under the leadership of Mr. UV Shenoy, Retd. Engineer, Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd., Madras as its Principal. In 1991, the institution was handed over to the Nitte Education Trust. Affiliated to the National Council for Vocational Training, New Delhi under the DGE & T, Government of India, Grant-In-Aid by Government of Karnataka since 1997, the institute runs various training programmes like computer operations, beautician and tailoring courses, electrical winder & wiremen course, T.V and A.C mechanic courses for free under the MES programme, parallel to the regular courses.

Source: http://www.nitte.ac.in/iti/