Rajkiya Engineering College (R.E.C.) Ambedkar Nagar was established by the Government of Uttar Pradesh under special component plan .

The work of college construction started in October 2010 with a budget of 6213.81Lakh.The college was running in the campus of Kamla Nehru Institue of Technology, Sultanpur and has been shifted to its own campus at AmbedkarNagar in August 2012.
Director of K.N.I.T Sultanpur was the Principal of Rajkiya Engineering College (R.E.C.), Ambedkar Nagaru pto Jan 14, 2015.

The college has started offering B.Tech. course in three disciplines- Information Technology, Electrical Engineering and Civil Engineering with intake of 60 seats in each branch from session 2010-2011.The institute is a constituent college of Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow. Prof K S Verma has joined as regular director ( Founder) of this Institute from Jan 15, 2015.