{"id":2439,"date":"2019-09-21T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2019-09-21T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T12:30:03","slug":"celebrating-visvesvarayas-birth-anniversary-as-engineers-day-on-sept-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/21\/2439\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Visvesvaraya\u2019s Birth Anniversary As \u2018Engineers Day\u2019 on Sept 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

By SHEFA RAFI<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a tribute to the contributions made by Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, the architect, who installed an irrigation system with water floodgates to raise the food supply level and storage to the highest levels at Khadakvasla reservoir near Pune, his birth anniversary September 15 is celebrated as \u2018National Engineers Day\u2019.
\nInterestingly, his patented irrigation system was also installed at Gwalior\u2019s Tigra Dam and Mysuru\u2019s Krishnaraja Sagara (KRS) dam (This made a history of being one of the largest reservoirs in Asia during that period.
\nNoteworthy to mention that Visvesvaraya graduated from Madras University in Bachelor of Arts (BA) and later obtained his civil engineering degree from college of science in Pune. The present gen engineering grads need to take a cue from Visvesvaraya\u2019s dedication and determination in creating a record of the sorts as an engineer nonpareil.<\/p>\n

\"\"Turning the pages of history, it revealed that Visvesvaraya as Diwan of Mysore was honoured with the title \u2018Knight\u2019 in 1915 and was appointed as commander of the British Indian empire by King George V. Adding more feather to his cap, he was bestowed with the highest award of Bharat Ratna in 1955 and later became a member of the London Institution of Civil Engineers. He also received a fellowship from the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) Bangalore.
\nThis scribe is reminded of the maiden book by career guru Sivakumar Palaniappan titled \u2018Become an engineer, not an engineering graduate\u2019 wherein he had given a clear picture of how engineering grads could turn engineers. Being an engineering grad himself, the young entrepreneur, who is now founder director of Thinkfluence Global is going places thru\u2019 his personality and career sessions. Truly, he didn\u2019t wait for the opportunity, but created an opportunity himself to be what he is now.
\nAnd Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya\u2019s contributions as an engineer par excellence should be an eye-opener to engineering grads, who crave for an engineering career. In memory of Visvesvaraya, a memorial stands tall at Muddenahalli, his birth place. Morever, many universities have been named after him including Visvesvaraya Technological University in Belagavi. Happy Engineers Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By SHEFA RAFI As a tribute to the contributions made by Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, the architect, who installed an irrigation system with water floodgates to raise the food supply level and storage to the highest levels at Khadakvasla reservoir near Pune, his birth anniversary September 15 is celebrated as \u2018National Engineers Day\u2019. Interestingly, his patented irrigation system was also installed at Gwalior\u2019s Tigra Dam and Mysuru\u2019s Krishnaraja Sagara (KRS) dam (This made a history of being one of the largest reservoirs in Asia during that period. Noteworthy to mention that Visvesvaraya…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coimbatore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kovaimetro.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}