Imbued with the noble objectives of disseminating high quality technical education and to contribute to realization of the larger national goal of generating technical manpower that is up-to-date, armed with in-depth theoretical foundations and applied skills, morally upright, and patriotic in spirit, it started "Chandrapur Engineering College, Chandrapur" in 1983, which was subsequently re-christened as "Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering, Research & Technology, Chandrapur in 2000. The College is spread over 42 acres of land with a total built-up area of 35,000 m2.

The society lays strong emphasis on maintaining quality in all aspects of education, which is evident in the fact that the college has been awarded "A" Grade by the Government of Maharashtra and its five programmes have been accredited by the NBA for a term of 3 years in February 2005.

Motivated with the mission of making the college a Centre of Excellency in Technical Education in the region, the college has also started a multi-disciplinary M.Tech. Programme in Energy Management System in the Department of Electronics and Power Engineering.

The Society realizes fully well the importance of an institute's constant interface with the industry and undertaking real-life projects. Accordingly, it has set up a Renewable Energy Park in association with MEDA, and a Fly Ash Utilisation and Characterisation Centre at the college.

To ensure smooth and systematic governance, the Society, which is ably led by Shri Shantaram Potdukhe, Ex-minister of state for finance, Government of India, as its President, has formed several committees to look after the various aspects such as purchase, building & development, finance etc. A Governing Body, consisting of the following members, has been formed the apex body for regulating the satisfactory governance of the Society.