Engineers Day 2022 : India Celebrates The Work Of M Visvesvaraya On September 15

Every year on September 15, India celebrates National Engineer’s day in honor of Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya – a great engineer whose achievements have impacted not only India but also Sri Lanka and Tanzania.

Born on September 15, 1861, in the Muddenahalli village of Karnataka, ​​Visvesvaraya completed his school education locally before pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the University of Madras. However, he eventually decided to switch career paths and obtained a diploma in civil engineering.

The irrigation system was later installed at Gwalior’s Tigra Dam and Mysuru’s Krishnaraja Sagara (KRS) dam. The KRS dam created one of the largest reservoirs in Asia at the time.

Popularly known as Sir MV, he was an engineer who undertook many complex projects and delivered amazing infrastructure results. He patented and installed an irrigation system with water floodgates at the Khadakvasla reservoir near Pune in 1903, which increased food supply levels and storage to the highest levels known as the ‘block system’.Sir M. Visvesvaraya was not only a celebrated engineer but also a leading economic thinker in India. His books “Reconstructing India” and “Planned Economy of India” were published in 1920 and 1934 respectively, and earned him the title of “precursor of economic planning in India” from the Institution of Engineers India (IEI). In 1915 he was awarded a knighthood for his services as Diwan of Mysore, and in 1955 he received the Bharat Ratna.

In 2018, Google Doodle honored Visvesvaraya on his birthday for his works that led to the Tata Steel engineers inventing an armored vehicle used in WWII. The vehicle could withstand bullets due to Visvesvaraya’s genius work. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya passed away in 1962.