SAEC WISHES YOU

ALL

“A HAPPY

ENGINEERS’

DAY”

IN MEMORY OF

SIR .MOKSHAGUNDAM VISVESVARAYA GARU

September 15, 1860

MOKSHAGUNDAM VISVESVARAYYA GARU “Sir .Mokshagundam Visveswaraiah “was a notable Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore during “1912 to 1918”. He was a recipient of the Indian Republic's highest honour, the “Bharat Ratna,” in 1955

Education: Early Schooling in

Chikkaballapur, 1881 : B.A. Examination from

Central College Bangalore .

1883 : Civil Engineering from Science College in Poona.

He ranked “first” in the L.C.E. and the F.C.E. Examinations (equivalent to B.E. Examination of

today).

LIFE & JOURNEY OF A CENTENARIAN

ABOUT VISVESVARAYA GARU “Dicipline” was ever his watch

word He was very famous for

“puntuality” He is too “perfect “in his work He is person with

“commitment” Visvesvaraya garu always give

“value” to education He plans every thing

“smoothly ,methodically” He is also “fearless patriot“

MAN WITH VALUES He was a strict vegetarian,

teetotaler and non-smoker, an admirer of the old Indian joint family system.

In business and industry, he admired the European and American methods, but in domestic habits he was

A perfect “Mysore Brahmin”

A Minister in Mysore once fixed an

interview with Sir M.V but was unable to come.

Next day when he called on him, Sir MV told him,

“you have committed a double mistake- firstly,

by not keeping up the engagement yesterday and

secondly, by coming when you were not.”

On his own account book was written, “If

you buy what you do not need, you will need

what you cannot buy.”

Sir M V was one of those rare human

beings who practiced in personal life what he

preached in public.

HIS RESPONSIBILITIESSome of the job positions he held were:• Assistant Engineer, Bombay

Government Service [in 1884]

• Chief Engineer, Hyderabad State [he served only for 7 months starting April 15, 1909]

• Chief Engineer in Mysore State [Nov 15, 1909]. He was also Secretary to the Railways.

• President of Education and Industrial Development committees in Mysore State

• Dewan of Mysore. [for six years]

•Chairman, Bhadravati Iron Works

•Member of the Governing Council of the

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

•Member of the Governing Council of Tata

Iron and steel Company [TISCO]

•Member of Back Bay enquiry committee,

London

•Member of a committee constituted in

1917 to make recommendations

regarding the future of Indian States

HIS PROPOSALS Architect of the

Krishnarajasagara dam – or KRS.

One of the biggest dams in India which irrigates a hundred and twenty thousand acres of land.

Bhadravati Iron and Steel Works - as its Chairman he rescued it from becoming extinct.

By his support in mysore 6500 new schools are opened

He made MAHARANI college in mysore for girls

He also made arrangements for the government to give scholar ship to intelligent students

He started sandaloil factory,soap factory,metal factory,the chrome tsnning factoryand BHADRAVATHI iron and steel factory

He played a major role in the lay of railway lines and aopening of bank in mysore

“JAYA CHARMARAJA POLYTECHNIC” institute of abanglore came out by the recommendation of him

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS•State Bank of Mysore (1913 it was first named The Bank of Mysore)

•Founder of Mysore Sandal Oil Factory and the Mysore soap factory

•Mysore Chamber of Commerce

•Founder of Kannada Literary

•Mysore University- Sir M.V.'s question was "If Australia and Canada could have universities of their own for less than a million population, cannot Mysore with a population of not less that 60 lakhs

AWARDS

HONOURS AND LAURELS 1906 : "Kaisar-i-Hind" in recognition of his services

• 1911 : C.I.E. (Companion of the Indian Empire) at the Delhi Durbar

• 1915 : K.C.I.E. (Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire)

• 1921 : D.Sc. – Calcutta University

• 1943 : Elected as an Honorary Life Member of the Institution of Engineers(I)

•1904 : Honorary Membership of London Institution of Civil Engineers

The Knight Commander Of

The Indian Empire

• 1948 : Doctorate - LLD., Mysore Uni.

• 1944 : D.Sc. – Allahabad

• 1953 : D.Litt – Andhra University

• 1953 : Awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Institute of Town Planners, India

• 1955 : Conferred BHARATHARATNA‘ (The gem of India), the highest civilian award of the country

• 1958 : 'Durga Prasad Khaitan Memorial Gold Medal‘ by the Royal Asiatic Society Council of Bengal

• Memorial at Muddenahalli.

• Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute Of Technology,

Bangalore is named after Sir M.V.

• University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering.

• Visweswaraiah National Institute of Technology

(V.N.I.T.), The college is among the elite 17 NationalInstitutes of Technologies

• The Visveswarayya Technological University, Belgaum, to which nearly all engineering colleges

MEMORIALS & INSTITUTIONS IN HIS HONOR

His alma mater, the“College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) has erected a statue in his memory and honor on their campus in central Pune, immediately outside the historic COEP administration building.

• The “Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum “, Bangalore, set up as part of his birth centenary celebrations.

• “Vishweshwaraya Iron and Steel Limited, a public sector undertaking, in the founding of which he was

On 14-April-1962 at 6.15am at the age of 102 years,, Sir M V breathed his last, peacefully.

WORDS ABOUT HIM Ramaswamy Mudaliar said, "was one of the greatest patriots of India belonging to no party, adopting no slogans, attached to no shibboleths but dedicated to the upliftment of his countrymen." He is undoubtedly the best known engineer of India.

Once “Sir C.Rajagopalachari unexpectedly called on him. Sir MV was so smartly dressed, Rajaji said. “Even if I bring a photographer in the middle of thenight, I can take your pictures. Youwill always be well groomed.”

At age of 90, a paper correspondent asked him how he felt and Sir M V remarked, “I find life interesting

Sir M. V.’s great dream was to see India prosper through industrialization.

He coined the slogans, “Produce or perish”, and “Industrialize or perish.”

"Remember, your work may be only to sweep a railway crossing, but it is your duty to > keep it so clean that no other crossing in the world is as clean as yours""

HIS WORDS TO OTHERS

BOOKS ABOUT VISVESVARAYA GARU M. Visvesvaraya by V.

“Sitaramiah,” Publications Division, Govt of India, New Delhi , 1971

· Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya by” V.S. Narayana Rao,” National Book Trust, India, New Delhi, 1988

· “Reconstructing India,” by M. Visvesvaraya, P.S. King & Son Ltd. London, 1920

“ Memoirs of My Working Life” by M.Visvesvaraya Bombay 1951

“ Brief Memoirs of My working Life “by M.Visvesvaraya, Bangalore, 1957

Planned Economy for India by M. Visvesvaraya Bangalore, 1934.

I n 1920 he published a book,

“ Reconstructing India” In 1934, “Planned Economy

for India.”

ONE OF MEMORY OF GREATENGINEER

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“SLACKNESS IS THE WORST CURSE OF THE COUNTRY.”

One of his saying…

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