Ammembal Subbarao Pai was a social reformer and a philanthropist who aimed at imparting modern education blended with ancient cultural values to the youth of Dakshina Kannada.

"Aakriti" is the annual national level Technical & Cultural event of the college.

[9] Several other events like INNOVATE,[10] TECHNOPHILIA, TECHGURU,[11] EMERGIA,[12] CIPIX maintains associations of various technical chapters in the college.

College has had a successful quiz club over the years winning a good number of competitions.

Most Notably, Winning the first place in General Quiz in VTU's annual youth fest for the year 2018 a reputed competition where hundreds of colleges affiliated to the university had taken part