In 1954 ,a group of leading textile industrialists crucially realized the need of a textile designing institute in the country and hence collaborated with the Government of Punjab to establish a Textile Technology institute in Faisalabad. Sixty-two acres of state owned land was provided free of cost for the purpose. 2.5 million Rs.Fund was granted by Kohinoor Industries , Colony Textile Mills, Dawood Foundation and Lyallpur Cotton Mills . Equipment and machinery, along with the services of experts under Colombo Plan were provided by The Government of U.K. under the administration of president Field Marshall Muhammad Ayub Khan who also laid the foundation stone of the Institute, on 12th of October 1959. Later, the Institute was granted affiliation by the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, and it was known as “National College of Textile Engineering”.