15/09/2023
Commemorating the Birth Anniversary of Indiaβs first & foremost Civil Engineer Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Engineerβs Day is celebrated since 1968 in India, Sri Lanka & Tanzania.
Lets have a look at the Lifetime Achievements of the Stalwart of Engineering Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya:
1885 - Assistant Engineer in Bombay
1894 - Municipality of Sukkur & Sind
1896 - Executive Engineer, Surat
1897 to 1899 - Assistant Superintending Engineer, Pune
1898 - Visited China and Japan
1899 - Executive Engineer for Irrigation, Pune
1901 - Sanitary Engineer, Bombay, and member, Sanitary Board, gave evidence before Indian Irrigation Commission
1903 - Designed and constructed automatic gates patented by him at Lake Fife Storage Reservoir & introduced a new system of irrigation known as "Block System"
1904 - Represented the Bombay Government at Simla Irrigation Commission
1907 - Superintending Engineer
1908 - Visited Egypt, Canada, United States, and Russia
1909 - Consulting Engineer to Hyderabad State's Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan & supervised and carried out engineering works on Musi riverβs to counter Hyderabad floods
1909 - Retired from British Service
1909 - Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government of Mysore
1913 - Dewan of Mysore, Public Works Department and Railway
1927 to 1955 - Board of Directors of Tata Steel
1955 - Awarded Bharat Ratna by the Government of India
Happy Engineerβs Day to all the Real Creators.