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Sir M.V’s Birthday/Engineers’ Day

Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya KCIE FASc, more commonly known as Sir MV, was an Indian Civil Engineer and statesman and the 19th Diwan of Mysore, serving from 1912 to 1919. He received India's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the British Indian Empire by King George V for his contributions to the public good. His birthday, 15 September, is celebrated as Engineers' Day in India, Sri Lanka and Tanzania in his memory. He was the Chief Engineer of Krishna Raja Sagara dam in the north-west suburb of Mysuru city, and also served as one of the Chief Engineers of the flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad.

Biography

Visvesvaraya was born in a Telugu Brahmin family, to Mokshagundam Srinivasa and Venkatalakshamma. Hailing from the Mokshagundam village in present Andhra Pradesh He took a job as an assistant engineer with the Public Works Department of Bombay, and later was invited to join the Indian Irrigation Commission.

Works

• Visvesvaraya, M (1920), Reconstructing India, P. S. King & son, ltd, OCLC 2430680

• Visvesvaraya, M (1936), Planned economy for India, Bangalore: Bangalore Press, OCLC 19373044

• Visvesvaraya, M (1951), Memories of my working life, Bangalore, OCLC 6459729

• Visvesvaraya, Mokshagundam (1932), Unemployment in India; its causes and cure, Bangalore: The Bangalore Press, OCLC 14348788

• Visvesvaraya, Mokshagundam (1917), Speeches, Bangalore: Govt. Press, OCLC 6258388

• Engineer of Hirakud Dam.

• A Brief Memoir of my complete working life, Government Press, Bangalore, 1959