The BNMIT cultural team has always given stiff competition at the University Youth Festival every year, which is the biggest event of the year where more than a 100 Engineering colleges under VTU participate.
The cultural team KALABHAGEERATHI, has shown rapid progress in VTU Intercollegiate cultural festivals from 6th place in 2003, runners up in 2006 to bagging the first prize in 2010.