The Visvesvaraya Industrial Trade Centre is the designated Nodal Agency of the state for promotion of International Trade from Karnataka, registered under the Karnataka Societies Act. It is supervised and regulated by an autonomous body constituted by the Government of Karnataka. VITC has been operational since 1965 under the aegis of Department of Industries & Commerce. VITC is named after Chief architect of modern Karnataka, Bharat Ratna Late Sir M.Visvesvaraya, who was instrumental in the industrialization of the state.

No nation was ever ruined by Trade.
- Benjamin Franklin