Background
The trust "Vishnu Education Foundation” was formed in 2004 by Er. Vishnu Saran, the known philanthropist, and like minded persons. Like minded philanthropists of this region joined hands and took upon themselves the social causes and established charitable hospitals and vocational schools. They felt the need on the turn of the century to train the technical man power for the new millennium and established engineering institutes, hence the foundation of Meerut Institute of Engineering & Technology, Meerut was laid in 1997 to prepare young man and women for the new millennium. Then promoters founded Meerut Institute of Technology in 2007 under another charitable trust Vishnu Education Foundation.
This Trust i.e. Vishnu Education Foundation has stemmed out from the same society “The City Educational & Social Welfare Society”. The Meerut Institute of Engineering & Technology, Meerut (MIET) had also received UPTU Excellence Award in 2008 and 2009 from Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow. MIET is a leading Institute known for placement and academic excellence and is also a preferred destination for technical education for students of Uttar Pradesh particularly in this region. Over the years the society has developed many institutes in the field of Engineering and Tech., Management studies, Pharmaceutical Science and Computer Applications.
The promoters realizing the need to train young men and women for the new millennium for the industrialized India under the shadows of Globalization of trade and thus established Meerut Institute of Technology at Meerut in 2007. In 2008 the promoters have established one more institute for educating students in the field of computer application. These institutes are now approved as single Technical campus (or integrated campus) as per latest guidelines of AICTE since July 2010, working in the name and style of MIT Group of Institutions, in 8.598 Acres of land under the preview of AICTE in a phased manner. This Institute is being promoted keeping the above cardinal principles in view Academic excellence, in serene calm environment, state of the art laboratories equipped with all facilities, are its hall mark.
The Institute was founded in 1997 as a philanthropic initiative by one of the leading educational societies of the region, City Educational & Social Welfare Society (CESWS). The founder chairman, Late Shri Chandra Sen Agrawal was a leading educationist of his time and spent his entire life in the service of community in the field of education .In the age of IT revolution and globalization where industry is the corner stone of prosperity of a nation , he was able to foresee the need to equip the young men and women, with the technical knowledge for the new millennium, hence established the Meerut Institute of Engineering & Technology (MIET).
Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology at MIET, was the first of its kind, when it was introduced in the year 2000.The department has tied up with L'institut National De la Recherche Scientifique (IMRS-ETE) University of Quebec, Canada. Anamol Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai and Atmiya Institute of Gerontology, Rajkot, Gujrat.The Department offers the finest faculty in the region and the best laboratories , well equipped with the latest instruments. The laboratories under the department include Molecular and Genetic Engineering, Microbiology, Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Environmental, Microbial Biotechnology and Computers and Bioinoformatics.