Youth festival is the University of Mumbai’s inter collegiate festival. This is the 41st year of the fest. Youth festival comprises of cultural competitions. Folk dance, classical dance, Indian and western group song, instrumentals an excellent variety of one act plays, mine, skits, and all these in a varied language choice, all swords of fine arts events to name a few. R.A. Podar college of Commerce and Economics has won Youth festival for 22 years out of 41 years it has completed. It has been extremely active on the youth festival front and has had many successful students represent the University of Mumbai at the state and national level competitions.

This year R.A. Podar College hosted the elimination rounds of zone 1(Churchgate-Matunga, C.S.T. –Sion) of youth festival, 2008. It is an excellent way of involving the teachers and students to work in perfect coordination. R.A.Podar hosted 18 performing arts event this year. The elimination rounds were held on the 17th and 18th of August, 2008. Around 40 students formed a part of the organizing committee. On the participation front, Podar qualified in 13 out of 17 qualifying events and has won a majority of them, thus achieving the runner up position at the university level next to Ramnarian Ruia College, which stood first.