2. IN MEMORY
OF
SIR .MOKSHAGUNDAM
VISVESVARAYA GARU
September 15, 1860
3. “Sir
.Mokshagundam
Visveswaraiah “was
a notable Indian
engineer, scholar,
statesman and the
Diwan of Mysore
during “1912 to
1918”. He was a
recipient of the
Indian Republic's
highest honour, the
“Bharat Ratna,” in
1955
4. Education:
Early Schooling in
Chikkaballapur,
1881 : B.A. Examination from
Central College Bangalore .
1883 : Civil Engineering from
Science College in Poona.
He ranked “first” in the L.C.E.
and the F.C.E. Examinations
(equivalent to B.E. Examination of today).
5. was ever his
“Dicipline”
watch word
He was very famous for
“puntuality”
He is too “perfect “in his
work
He is person with
“commitment”
Visvesvaraya garu always
give “value” to education
He plans every thing
“smoothly ,methodically”
He is also “fearless patriot“
6. He was a strict vegetarian,
teetotaler and non-smoker, an
admirer of the old Indian joint
family system.
In business and industry, he
admired the European and
American methods, but in
domestic habits he was
A perfect “Mysore Brahmin”
7. A Minister in Mysore once fixed an
interview with Sir M.V but was unable to come.
Next day when he called on him, Sir MV told him,
“you have committed a double mistake- firstly, by
not keeping up the engagement yesterday and
secondly, by coming when you were not.”
On his own account book was written, “If
you buy what you do not need, you will need
what you cannot buy.”
Sir M V was one of those rare human
beings who practiced in personal life what he
preached in public.
8. Some of the job positions he held were:
• Assistant Engineer, Bombay Government
Service [in 1884]
• Chief Engineer, Hyderabad State [he
served
only for 7 months starting April 15, 1909]
• Chief Engineer in Mysore State [Nov 15,
1909]. He was also Secretary to the
Railways.
• President of Education and Industrial
Development committees in Mysore State
• Dewan of Mysore. [for six years]
9. •Chairman, Bhadravati Iron Works
•Member of the Governing Council of the
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
•Member of the Governing Council of Tata
Iron and steel Company [TISCO]
•Member of Back Bay enquiry committee,
London
•Member of a committee constituted in
1917 to make recommendations
regarding the future of Indian States
10. Architect of the
Krishnarajasagara dam – or
KRS.
One of the biggest dams in
India which irrigates a hundred
and twenty thousand acres of
land.
Bhadravati Iron and Steel
Works - as its Chairman he
rescued it from becoming
extinct.
By his support in mysore 6500
new schools are opened
He made MAHARANI college
in mysore for girls
11. He also made arrangements
for the government to give
scholar ship to intelligent
students
He started sandaloil
factory,soap factory,metal
factory,the chrome tsnning
factoryand BHADRAVATHI
iron and steel factory
He played a major role in the
lay of railway lines and
aopening of bank in mysore
“JAYA CHARMARAJA
POLYTECHNIC” institute of
abanglore came out by the
recommendation of him
12. •State Bank of Mysore
(1913 it was first named The Bank of Mysore)
•Founder of Mysore Sandal Oil
Factory
and the Mysore soap factory
•Mysore Chamber of Commerce
•Founder of Kannada Literary
•Mysore University-
Sir M.V.'s question was "If Australia
and Canada could have universities
of their own for less than a million
population, cannot Mysore with a
population of not less that 60 lakhs
13. HONOURS AND LAURELS
1906 : "Kaisar-i-Hind" in recognition of
his services
• 1911 : C.I.E. (Companion of the Indian
Empire) at the Delhi Durbar
• 1915 : K.C.I.E. (Knight Commander of
the Order of the Indian Empire)
• 1921 : D.Sc. – Calcutta University
• 1943 : Elected as an Honorary Life
Member of the Institution of
Engineers(I)
•1904 : Honorary Membership of London
The Knight Commander
Institution of Civil Engineers
Of
The Indian Empire
14. • 1948 : Doctorate - LLD., Mysore Uni.
• 1944 : D.Sc. – Allahabad
• 1953 : D.Litt – Andhra University
• 1953 : Awarded the Honorary
Fellowship of the Institute of Town
Planners, India
• 1955 : Conferred BHARATHARATNA„
(The gem of India), the highest civilian award of
the country
• 1958 : 'Durga Prasad Khaitan
Memorial Gold Medal„ by the Royal
Asiatic Society Council of Bengal
15. MEMORIALS & INSTITUTIONS IN HIS HONOR
• Memorial at Muddenahalli.
• Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute Of
Technology,
Bangalore is named after Sir M.V.
• University Visvesvaraya College
of Engineering.
• Visweswaraiah National Institute
of Technology
(V.N.I.T.), The college is among
the elite 17 NationalInstitutes of
Technologies
• The Visveswarayya Technological
University, Belgaum, to which
nearly all engineering colleges
16. His alma mater, the
“College of Engineering, Pune (COEP)
has erected a statue in his memory
and honor on their campus in central
Pune, immediately outside the historic
COEP administration building.
• The “Visvesvaraya Industrial and
Technological Museum “, Bangalore,
set up as part of his birth centenary
celebrations.
• “Vishweshwaraya Iron and Steel
Limited, a public sector undertaking, in
the founding of which he was
17. On 14-April-1962 at 6.15am at the age of 102
years,, Sir M V breathed his last, peacefully.
18. Ramaswamy Mudaliar said,
"was one of the greatest patriots
of India belonging to no party,
adopting no slogans, attached to
no shibboleths but dedicated to
the upliftment of his countrymen."
He is undoubtedly the best known
engineer of India.
Once “Sir C.Rajagopalachari
unexpectedly called on him. Sir
MV was so smartly dressed, Rajaji
said. “Even if I bring a
photographer in the middle of the
night, I can take your pictures. You
will always be well groomed.”
19. At age of 90, a paper
correspondent asked him how he
felt and Sir M V remarked, “I find
life interesting
Sir M. V.’s great dream was to
see India prosper through
industrialization.
He coined the slogans,
“Produce or perish”, and
“Industrialize or perish.”
"Remember, your work may be
only to sweep a railway crossing,
but it is your duty to > keep it so
clean that no other crossing in
the world is as clean as yours""
20. M. Visvesvaraya by V.
“Sitaramiah,” Publications
Division, Govt of India, New
Delhi , 1971
· Mokshagundam
Visvesvaraya by” V.S.
Narayana Rao,” National
Book Trust, India, New Delhi,
1988
· “Reconstructing India,” by
M. Visvesvaraya, P.S. King &
Son Ltd. London, 1920
21. “ Memoirs of My Working Life”
by M.Visvesvaraya Bombay
1951
“ Brief Memoirs of My working
Life “by M.Visvesvaraya,
Bangalore, 1957
Planned Economy for India by
M. Visvesvaraya Bangalore,
1934.
I n 1920 he published a book,
“ Reconstructing India”
In 1934, “Planned Economy
for India.”
