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Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
As the Dewan of Mysore, MV was an important builders of modern India
Bharat Rathna Sir MOKSHAGUNDAM Visvesvaraya, the illustrious son of Karnataka, was a great visionary and one of the architects of modern India. He advocated the importance of science, engineering and higher education for India nearly a century ago.
"Education is the sovereign remedy for all economic ills; higher the standard of education and science applied to industrial calling, greater the wealth produced. We must develop the life and capacity of our people by encouraging in them self-help, power of initiative, courage to change and courage to create new things, a spirit of co-operation and a capacity of organization"
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya (popularly known as Sir M.V.)
( September 15, 1860– April 12, 1962), was an eminent Indian engineer and statesman.
He is a recipient of the Indian republic's highest honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955.
He was also knighted by the British for his myriad contributions to the public good..
Every year 15th September is celebrated as the Engineer's Day
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. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya (other spellings include Visweswaraiah, Vishweshwariah and Vishweshwarayya) (September 15, 1860–April 12, 1962), popularly known as "Sir M.V.", was an eminent Indian engineer and statesman. He is a recepient of the Indian republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. He was also knighted by the British for his myriad contributions to the public good.
Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya (also spelled Visweswaraiah) (Other spellings Vishweshwariah and Vishweshwarayya) (September 15, 1861–April 12,1962), popularly known as MV, was an eminent Indian engineer. He was born to Srinivasa Sastry and Venkachamma in Muddenahalli village, 40 miles from Bangalore, India. The family was a pious Telugu-speaking smartha brahminfamily of the vaidiki Mulukanadu sub-caste. His ancestors actually belonged to Mokshagundam village, near Giddalur in the Prakasam district of present-day Andhra Pradesh, and had migrated to Mysore some three centuries ago. His father was a Sanskrit scholar andan authority on Hindu Dharmashastras (theology), besides being an Ayurvedic practitioner
Sir M.V. lost his father at the age of 15. The family was in Kurnool when this happened, and moved back to Muddenahalli therafter.
Sir M.V. attended primary school in Chikballapur and high school in Bangalore. He earned his B.A. from Madras University in 1881 and laterstudied civil engineering at the College of Science, Pune, now known as College of Engineering,Pune(COEP).
He took up a job with the Public Works Department (PWD) of Bombay, and was invited to join the Indian Irrigation Commission. He introduced anextremely intricate system of irrigation in the Deccan area. He also designed and patented a system of automatic weir water floodgates, whichwere installed at the Khadakvasla reservoir at Pune, for the first time, in 1903. The use of these gates was to raise the flood supply levelof storage in the reservoir to the highest level likely to be attained by its flood, without causing any damage to the dam. Based on thesuccess of these gates, the same was adopted in the Tigra dam in Gwalior and the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) dam in Mysore. The KRS dam acrossthe Kaveri River was the biggest reservoir in India at that time
MV achieved celebrity status when he designed a flood protection system to save Hyderabad city from floods. He was also instrumental indeveloping a system to save the Visakhapatnam port from sea erosion. After taking a voluntary retirement in 1908, he was appointed Dewan, orFirst Minister, of Mysore, one of the largest and most important princely states in India.
With the support of HH The Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV, he made an arguably unprecedented contribution as Dewan to the all-round development of the state. Not only the KRS dam & reservoir, but also the hydel projects at Shivanasamudra, the steel mills atBhadravati, the university of Mysore and many other industries and public works owe their inception or active nurture to him. He wasinstrumental in setting up the Government Engineering College in 1917 in the city of Bangalore, one of the first Engineering institutes inthe country. This institution was later named the UVCE (University Visweshvarayya College of Engineering) after its founder; it remains oneof the most reputed institutes of higher learning in the state of Karnataka
The institutions named in his honour are deservedly a legion, and include the technical university, Visweswaraiah Technological University,Belgaum, to which all the state engineering colleges of the Karnataka state are now affiliated. As part of his birth centenary celebrations,the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum was set up in Bangalore.
While he was Dewan of Mysore, he was knighted by the British for his myraid contributions to the public good. After India attainedindependence, he was given the nation's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955
Some of the honours and laurels conferred on Sir M.V.,
1904
Honorary Membership of London Institution of Civil Engineers for an unbroken period of 50 years
1906
"Kaisar-i-Hind" in recognition of his services
1911
C.I.E. (Companion of the Indian Empire) at the Delhi Darbar
1915
K.C.I.E. (Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire)
1921
D.Sc. - Calcutta University
1931
LLD - Bombay University
1937
D.Litt - Benaras Hindu University
1943
Elected as an Honorary Life Member of the Institution of Engineers (India)
1944
D.Sc. - Allahabad University
1948
Doctorate - LLD., Mysore University
1953
D.Litt - Andhra University
1953
Awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Institute of Town Planners, India
1955
Conferred ' BHARATHA RATNA'(The gem of India), the highest dinstiction of the country
1958
'Durga Prasad Khaitan Memorial Gold Medal' by the Royal Asiatic Society Council of Bengal
1959
Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
1904
Honorary Membership of London Institution of Civil Engineers for an unbroken period of 50 years
1906
"Kaisar-i-Hind" in recognition of his services
1911
C.I.E. (Companion of the Indian Empire) at the Delhi Darbar
1915
K.C.I.E. (Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire)
1921
D.Sc. - Calcutta University
1931
LLD - Bombay University
1937
D.Litt - Benaras Hindu University
1943
Elected as an Honorary Life Member of the Institution of Engineers (India)
1944
D.Sc. - Allahabad University
1948
Doctorate - LLD., Mysore University
1953
D.Litt - Andhra University
1953
Awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Institute of Town Planners, India
1955
Conferred ' BHARATHA RATNA'(The gem of India), the highest dinstiction of the country
1958
'Durga Prasad Khaitan Memorial Gold Medal' by the Royal Asiatic Society Council of Bengal
1959
Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
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