Engineer’s day 2022:
Every year India celebrates National Engineer’s day
on September 15 to recognize and honour the
achievements of the great engineer Mokshagundam
Visvesvaraya. Along with India, Visvesvaraya’s
great works are also celebrated in Sri Lanka and
Tanzania on September 15 as Engineer’s day.
Born on September 15, 1861, in the Muddenahalli
village of Karnataka, Visvesvaraya completed his
school education in his hometown and later on
went to study Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the
University of Madras. He then switched to a
different career path and pursued a diploma
in civil engineering at the College of
Science in Pune.
Popularly known as Sir MV, he undertook
several complex projects and delivered remarkable
infrastructural results during his engineering career.
He patented and installed an irrigation system with
water floodgates at the Khadakvasla reservoir near
Pune to raise the food supply level and storage to
the highest levels known as ‘block system’ in 1903.
The irrigation system was later installed at
Gwalior’s Tigra Dam and Mysuru’s
Krishnaraja Sagara (KRS) dam, the latter of which
created one of the largest reservoirs in
Asia at the time.
Apart from his contributions in the field of
engineering, he was also called the “precursor
of economic planning in India”, according to the
Institution of Engineers India (IEI). His books,
“Reconstructing India” and “Planned Economy
of India” were published in 1920 and 1934,
respectively. He was awarded knight in 1915
while serving as the Diwan of Mysore, and
received Bharat Ratna in 1955.
In 2018, Google launched a Doodle on his
birthday to celebrate his genius works whose
endeavors led to the Tata Steel engineers inventing
an armored vehicle that was used in WWII and
could withstand bullets. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
passed away in 1962.
Source -
https://indianexpress.com/article/education/engineers-day-2022-
know-why-india-celebrates-the-work-of-m-
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