Establishment in 1996 in Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal Polytechnic Institute (NPI) is a first Public Limited Company of its kind registered under NepalCompany Act 2021 B.S. and Nepal Industrial Act 2049 B.S. The Institute was established mainly to produce low to high level human resources in the area of natural resource management, engineering, envrionment, management and medicine within a single umbrella so that coordinated efforts could be made to produce quality human resources trained in different disciplines.

The mission of NPI is to produce competent human resources able to work at national and international level and participate in the overall process of development of the country.

The institute has been thus established to produce different levels of technical and vocational human resources covering natural resource management (including agriculture and veterinary science), engineering, medicine and environmental science. The NPI also has a mission along as to provide consultancy and technical services in the respective disciplines. The mission of NPI is to make the students of Nepal competent enough for the global competition.