The Government Institute of Engineering, Sonepat has been functioning under different names and styles since 1942. It was started by the Defence Department to improving the quality of Surgical Instruments, which were supplied to the Defence Department. In the post war phase, the function of this organization changed to bring about development in the field of manufacture of Surgical Instruments and Appliances. With the partition of India, the function were further enhanced to that of a training Institution with a view to feed the industry with specialized personnel at supervisory and artisan level. Since 1951 when the Institute assumed training functions, it has been offering facilities for training of supervisory and skilled categories of specialties needed for the development of Surgical Industry in the country. The Institute had been catering for 3 year Diploma and Certificate courses respectively in Surgical Instruments manufacturing and specialized allied Trades. The certificate courses were later on discontinued from the year 1964.

Originally, the Institute was under the control of Industrial Training Department, known by the name of Surgical Instrument Centre & Developmental Laboratory, later renamed as Government Institute of Surgical Instruments Technology offered three years Diploma Courses with intake of 30 each in the following disciplines: –

• Diploma in Mechanical Engg. (Surgical Instruments Technology).
• Diploma in Mechanical Engg. (Machine Tools & Die Sinking Technology).

In 1978  The Institute came under the administrative control of Department of Technical Education, Haryana and was renamed as Government Institute of Engineering. In 1988. Diploma in Mechanical Engg. (Surgical Instruments Technology) and Diploma in Mechanical Engg. (Machine Tools & Die Sinking Technology) were replaced by following sandwich Courses of 3½ years duration:

• Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, with Specialization in Tool & Die Engineering (intake 30)
• Diploma in Production Engineering & Industrial Management (intake 60)

    
Later, Diploma in Chemical Engineering and Diploma in Instrumentation Technology of 3½ years duration with intake of 30 students were also introduced in 1989 and 1995 respectively. Now the Institute is called as Government Polytechnic, Sonepat (Since 2001) and above courses has been replaced by the following 3 years Diploma.

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