Industrious and enterprising, an Engineering Contractor of all India repute, a person with a lavish common sense, Sri M S Ramaiah, an illustrious son of Karnataka founded "Gokula Education Foundation" in the year 1962 as one of his bold ventures to perform service to society through a private educational system, without looking for any form of assistance from other agencies. Under the aegis of this foundation was born "M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology" in the same year. Another landmark was thus created in the history of technical education of India to impart much needed engineering education and an access was provided to all those who had been denied such an opportunity till then, in all parts of the country and outside.