The Vishwakarma Group functions under the aegis of Bansilal Ramnath Agarwal Charitable Trust (BRACT). The Trust runs several educational institutes, a publishing division, retail stores, a managing consultancy and a temple under its aegis. The first educational venture of the trust - Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT) was established in the year 1983. Vishwakarma Vidyalaya was established in the year 1986, followed by a series of educational institutes in the subsequent years. Presently, the Vishwakarma Group has 1500 full time employees, 7 educational institutes that have programmes ranging from high school, junior school, undergraduate, postgraduate to Phd. Programmes, in the fields of engineering, management, marine engineering, and value added programmes with approximately 17,000 student enrollments. The Group operates in the areas that drive the economic growth in the country and believes in empowering the individual institutions to make them independent working bodies. The group has always embraced and adapted to the needs of modern India while keeping it’s core value intact.