[5][6] The college started functioning at Vadassery Amma Veedu at Perunthanni in 1948 and was later shifted to the present site[7] at Kattachakkonam, now known as Kesavadasapuram.
[7] The main building was completed in 1958 and was inaugurated by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, on 24 April 1958.
[7] The foundation stone of the three-storeyed Mannam Memorial Block was laid by P. K. Narayana Panicker, General Secretary of the Nair Service Society (NSS) on 23 April 1989[7] and the block upon completion was inaugurated by Swaroop Singh, the then Governor of Kerala, on 02 October 1990.
Besides providing research facilities in various disciplines, the college has started an Instrumentation course attached to the Department of Physics.
[8] Due to clashes between the Students' Federation of India (SFI) and the ABVP, campus politics is banned as of 2019 per a High Court[which?]