Engineer’s Day: Sir Visvesvaraya’s Contribution to Nation Building
September 15 is observed as Engineer’s Day in India to mark the birth anniversary of Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, a civil engineer and a statesman. Sir MV, as he is also known, made contributions to several technical projects in his career in Hyderabad, Mysore, Maharashtra and Orissa. In 1955, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna.
Areas of Work
- Service: Sir MV’s career spanned 34 years and after taking a voluntary retirement from state service in 1918, he continued working on the Mysore Iron and Steel Works and established the Sir Sir Jayachamarajendra Polytechnic. This institute was meant to impart ....
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