Late Ammembal Subba Rao Pai was a person of high ideals and far sighted wisdom. He saw the need of educating the people to adjust themselves to the changing times and environment. He realized that a large number of people of the Gowd Saraswath Brahmin Community were too poor to give adequate educational facilities to their children. He determined that poverty should not come in the way of intellectual growth of the community’s youth. At the Gowd Saraswath Brahmin Parishad held in the Bhuvanendra Hall in December 1908, he moved that a Fund be started, the interest of which would be utilized to help the education of deserving but poor students. The proposal was accepted and he was authorized as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Parishad to make an appeal on this behalf to the members of the Gowda Saraswath Brahmin Community.

A month later he sent an appeal for a Fund of Rs. 25,000 for helping the poor youth of our community ‘who are specially bright to obtain higher general education and special education in technical subjects such as Medicine, Engineering etc.”.

Unfortunately he was not destined to see the fruition of his efforts. He passed away on 25-07-1909.

Soon after his death a meeting of the Gowd Saraswath Brahmin Community was held in the Bhuvanendra Hall on 1-8-1909. It resolved to commemorate his name by realizing his whishes and “The Poor Boys” Educational Fund” on behalf of which he himself had issued an appeal, should be raised without more delay.