This year marks the 160th birth anniversary of M Visvesvaraya who was born on September 15, 1861, in the Muddenahalli village of Karnataka. He finished his school education in his hometown and later went to study Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Madras. Nevertheless, he changed his career course after finishing and pursued civil engineering at the College of Science in Pune..

Apart from his engineering honors, he played an instrumental role in imparting awareness about engineering discipline and likewise played an important role in the structure of Government Engineering College at Bangalore in 1917. The college was later relabelled after him as University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE).

In 2018, Google launched a Doodle on his birthday to commemorate his genius works whose ventures led to the Tata Steel engineers invent an armored automobile that was used in WWII and could endure bullets. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya died in 1962 however his accomplishments and contributions are celebrated till date.

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An expert in irrigation techniques and flood catastrophe management, Sir MV was not just a fantastic civil engineer but likewise served as the 19th Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1919. While working as the Diwan of Mysore, in 1915 he was awarded Knight as a commander of the British Indian Empire by King George V.

Engineers day 2021: Every year on September 15, India along with Sri Lanka and Tanzania commemorate National Engineers day to acknowledge and honour the accomplishments of the great engineer Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. The day is observed to honor the excellent work of engineers and to motivate them for enhancement and innovation.

For his contribution to the building of India, the federal government awarded him with Indias highest honor Bharat Ratna in 1955..

This was also installed at Gwaliors Tigra Dam and Mysurus Krishnaraja Sagara (KRS) dam, the latter of which developed among the biggest reservoirs in Asia at the time.

Commonly understood as Sir MV, Visvesvaraya carried out lots of intricate tasks and delivered exceptional infrastructural outcomes during his career. He set up an irrigation and patented system with water floodgates at the Khadakvasla tank near Pune to raise the food supply level and storage to the highest levels referred to as block system in 1903..