INDIA
DNA Web Team | Sep 15, 2018, 10:06 AM IST
1.Birth
He was born to poor family in 1861 and raised in Karnataka’s Muddenahalli village. Legend has it that he walked 60 k to attend the United Mission School and wasn’t averse to studying under the light.
2.Academics
He earned a licence in civil engineering from the University of Bombay and began working with erstwhile Bombay’s Public Works Division. He joined the Indian irrigation Commission.
3.Work in Education
He cared deeply about engineering founding the Government Engineering College in Bangalore in 1917. The college was later named after him - the Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology.
4.Planning Commission
He was the first to bat for economic planning, long before independence. To some he was better known as the author of the 1934 book A Planned Economy for India, which would make him the father of the Planning Commission as well. In 1938, when the first rudimentary economic planning began was set up by Subhas Chandra Bose, he was to head it. He was the head of the planning committee but scientist Meghnad Saha said that a politician ought to head it, and Nehru was made the National Planning Committee head.
5.Works
His most famous project was the Krishna Raja Sagara Lake and Dam, which was India’s largest reservoir at the time. It provided drinking water for several cities. PM Modi has also paid tribute to him in his Mann Ki Baat saying "lakhs of farmers and common people continue to benefit from the Krishna Raj Sagar Dam built by him".
He designed and patented a system of automatic weir floodgates initially installed in 1903 at Khadakvasla reservoir near Pune. These automates gates were used later in Tigra Dam in Gwalior, Krishna Raja Sagara Dam in Mysore. He also designed a flood protection system for Hyderabad and developed a system to protect Vishakapatnam port from sea erosiion
6.Awards
He was appointed Chief Engineer of Mysore State in 1909, given the status of Diwan of Mysore in 1912, awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1955. He was also knighted by George V.
7.Legacy
He is so honoured in Karnataka that he has his own lyrics in the 1972 blockbuster Bangarada Manushaya, the longest-running movie in Kannada film history which goes: “If Visvesvaraya had not toiled. And allowed Cauvery to flow. And not built Kannambadi?. Would this precious land have harvested gold? Prosperous Kannada land, our prosperous Kannada land?”
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