Indians celebrate Engineers’ Day on September 15 to pay tribute to engineering legend Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. M Visvesvaraya, was a pioneer in his field, credited for inventing the Block System for dams – the automated doors what shut during an overflow. India’s legendary dam builder was born on September 15, 1861 at Muddenahalli near Chikkaballapur in Karnataka and went on to become one of India’s greatest engineers. In 1938, when the first rudimentary economic planning was set up by Subhas Chandra Bose, he was to head it. Prosperous Kannada land, our prosperous Kannada land?”

Source: dna September 14, 2020 18:44 UTC