Engineers Day Celebrations on 15th September, 2020 .

1. ENGINEERS DAY CELEBRATIONS:
Why India celebrates Engineers Day
on
Sir Mokshgundam Visvesvaraya’s
birth anniversary
On 15th September
Every year..
Prof. Lakshmi Shankar, Assistant Professor,
Department Mechanical Engineering,
Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab.-147002, India.

2. Some Facts:------
• Greatest civil Engineer..
• He was born on 15th Sept, 1860 at a small village in Mysore in
Karnataka.* (15th Sept, 1860 to 12th April 1962)..102 years…
• It is celebrated in three countries like in
• India , Sri Lanka and Tanzania.
• Rest world celebrate on different dates…

3. • Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, who was fondly called Sir MV, was literally
KNOWN AS the builder of India,
• the builder of dams and
• water systems, to be precise, which not only boosted irrigation facilities
but also saved a large number of people from floods.
• He was an engineering pioneer of India whose genius reflected in
harnessing of water resources and building and consolidation of dams
across the country.
• Every year India celebrates Engineer's Day on September 15, the birth
anniversary of Visvesvaraya.

4. • He went on to become India’s most prolific civil engineer, dam builder,
economist and statesman.
• He was one of the most prominent builders of India in the 20thcentury.
• When Visvesvaraya was the Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918, he
transformed the state into what was then known as a 'model state’.
• For his numerous industrial, economic and social projects, he was called
"Father of Modern Mysore".

5. • Visvesvaraya was also the chief engineer responsible for the construction of the
Krishna Raja Sagara Dam in Mysore, the biggest in Asia at that time.
• In 1909, when the city of Hyderabad was in danger of getting flooded,
Visvesvaraya was appointed as special consultant engineer to make the city flood-
proof.
• His inventive engineering work saved the Visakhapatnam port from sea erosion.
Visvesvaraya is credited with inventing the block system, automated doors that
close the water overflows.
• He designed and patented the floodgates which were first installed at the
Khadakwasla reservoir in Pune in 1903.

6. • Visvesvaraya established Government Engineering College in 1917 in
Bengaluru which was later named University Visvesvaraya College of
Engineering in his honour.
Due to his outstanding contribution to the building of India, the government
conferred 'Bharat Ratna' on on him in 1955.
• He was also awarded the British knighthood by King George V, which put
the honorific 'sir' before his name.

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