Engineer's day 2022 - ( 15.09.2022 )

 Engineer's day 2022 - ( 15.09.2022 )

Engineer’s day 2022:

 Every year India celebrates National Engineer’s day 

on September 15 to recognize and honour the 

achievements of the great engineer Mokshagundam

 Visvesvaraya. Along with India, Visvesvaraya’s 

great works are also celebrated in Sri Lanka and 

Tanzania on September 15 as Engineer’s day. 

Born on September 15, 1861, in the Muddenahalli 

village of Karnataka, ​​Visvesvaraya completed his

 school education in his hometown and later on 

went to study Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the 

University of Madras. He then switched to a

 different career path and pursued a diploma

 in civil engineering at the College of 

Science in Pune. 

Popularly known as Sir MV, he undertook

 several complex projects and delivered remarkable 

infrastructural results during his engineering career.

 He patented and installed an irrigation system with

 water floodgates at the Khadakvasla reservoir near 

Pune to raise the food supply level and storage to 

the highest levels known as ‘block system’ in 1903. 

The irrigation system was later installed at

 Gwalior’s Tigra Dam and Mysuru’s 

Krishnaraja Sagara (KRS) dam, the latter of which 

created one of the largest reservoirs in

 Asia at the time.

Apart from his contributions in the field of 

engineering, he was also called the “precursor 

of economic planning in India”, according to the 

Institution of Engineers India (IEI). His books,

 “Reconstructing India” and “Planned Economy 

of India” were published in 1920 and 1934,

 respectively. He was awarded knight in 1915

 while serving as the Diwan of Mysore, and 

received Bharat Ratna in 1955.

In 2018, Google launched a Doodle on his

 birthday to celebrate his genius works whose 

endeavors led to the Tata Steel engineers inventing

 an armored vehicle that was used in WWII and 

could withstand bullets. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya 

passed away in 1962.