Person · civil engineer & Dewan · India
M. Visvesvaraya
Also known as Sir MV, Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (1861-1962), civil engineer, statesman and Dewan of Mysore (1912-18). Designed and built the Krishna Raja Sagara dam (1911-32), the automatic flood-sluice system of the Khadakvasla reservoir (patented 1903), and the Mysore iron and steel works at Bhadravati. Founder of the Government Engineering College at Bangalore (1917, now UVCE) and co-founder with the Tatas of the Bank of Mysore. His birthday, 15 September, is observed as National Engineers' Day. Bharat Ratna 1955.
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- British Colonial Age, Republic and Living Practice
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- Science & medicine
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- Associated withIndian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
M. Visvesvaraya sat on the Court of Governors of the Indian Institute of Science from the 1910s and in 1917 founded the Government Engineering College at Bangalore (now UVCE), the first engineering college in Mysore state. The two institutions together put Bangalore on the Indian scientific map a generation before independence.
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