Engineer's Day 2020: Among some of his contributions include the block system of irrigation in the Deccan canals in 1899, irrigation system with water floodgates at the Khadakvasla reservoir.
By:-science academy | New Delhi | Updated: September 16, 7:21 PM IST
National
Engineer’s Day celebrated on September 15 on the birth anniversary of Sir
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. (Photos: Visvesvaraya National Memorial
Trust/Pratham Books)
Engineer’s
Day 2020: The country celebrates Engineer’s Day on September 15 to appreciate
the contributions of eminent engineer Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya who was born on
September 15, 1861 in a village called Muddenahalli in Karnataka. He had
studied Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Madras and pursued civil
engineering at the College of Science in Pune.
Visvesvaraya’s
career spanned over 34 years with his first job as an assistant engineer in the
Public Works Department of the Government of Bombay. He later joined the Mysore
service as chief engineer and had contributed to several technical projects in
Hyderabad, Mysore, Maharashtra and Odisha.
Among
some of his contributions include the block system of irrigation in the Deccan
canals in 1899, irrigation system with water floodgates at the Khadakvasla
reservoir. 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.
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He took
voluntary retirement from state service in 1918, over his disagreement with the
proposal to set aside state jobs for the “non- brahmin” community.
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.
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