Udupi : Dr Belle Subrahmanya Samaga (74), who had served as professor for 40 years at the erstwhile KREC(present NITK) Suratkal and as Dean of Studies at NMAMIT, Nitte, passed away  following a cardiac arrest at his residence here on April 8, Monday.

Samaga had done his engineering degree from BVB Engineering College in Hubli and ME from Pune Engineering College, scoring the first rank, in 1964. He did his MSc from King’s College, London and  PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.