The Government Engineering College, Idukki (GECI) was established in 2000 under the Directorate of Technical Education – Government of Kerala. The college is affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam and is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi. The college started functioning in 2000 at Painavu in government buildings renovated for the purpose. Twenty five acres of land at Kuyilimala near Painavu was transferred to the college for the construction of a permanent campus in August 2000.The first batch of students were admitted in November 2000. Owing to the delay in obtaining AICTE approval and as per the orders of the High Court of Kerala, three batches of students admitted to the college were transferred to Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam in their final year. The AICTE team inspected the college in April 2003 and approval was granted for the 2003-2004 admissions onwards. GECI has 870 undergraduate students in four batches. The batch of students admitted to the college in 2003 is the first batch rolled out in October 2007.