C.K Pithawalla College of Engineering and Technology is a self financed Institute which started its functioning in December, 1998 affiliated with Veer Narmad South Gujarat University,Surat. C.K Pithawalla College of Engineering And Technology is being managed by the Navyug Vidyabhavan Trust which was founded in February, 1965. Within a short span of its operation, the college has provided all the necessary facilities to help the students which includes a well eastablished library containing a large number of books, reference books,technical and general magazines.
Surat is the most industralized city in the state of Gujarat today. It is well known all over the world for its diamonds, jari and manmade textiles. Situated on the banks of the river Tapi, it is the fastest growing industrial city in the country. Besides this, it is also fast emerging as the source of dyes, chemicals and intermediates, textile machinery, plastic technology as well as agro-based industries. This attract skilled, semiskilled and unskilled workmen from all over the country.
The pace of growth of the city accelerated during the past 60 years and Surat became a dominant centre of commercial activity in South Gujarat. This in its wake brought some problemsalso, mainly in the field of higher education