about visvesvarayaa

2. LIFE & JOURNEY OF A CENTENARIAN
Born : September 15, 1860
Place: Muddenahalli village
(Kolar district of Karnataka).
Father: Srinivasa Sastry
Mother: Venkachamma.

3. LIFE & JOURNEY OF A CENTENARIAN
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).

4. HIS RESPONSIBILITIES
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]

5. CONTD.,
•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

6. In bMusiAneNss aWndI iTndHu sVtryA, hLeU aEdmSired the European and American
methods, but in domestic habits he was a perfect Mysore Brahmin.
“Slackness is the worst curse of the country.”
*At age of 90, a paper correspondent asked him how he felt and Sir
M V remarked, “I find life interesting.”
*0Once Sri 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.”

7. MAN WITH VALUES
*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.
*In Sweden Sir MV feel ill, the doctor suggested him to take a
few drops of Brandy with medicine. For which Sir M V replied
“If this life cannot survive without those drops, let it go.”

8. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS Bombay
• Introduced the block system of irrigation
• Designed a new system of systematic water weir flood gate
• Established Deccan Club in Poona
Bihar & Orissa
• Selected site for a railway bridge on river of Ganga in Bihar
• Hirakund enquiries
• Water supply schemes through out the state
Hyderabad
• Schemes for flood protection & drainage for Hyderabad
• Remodelling of Hyderabad city

9. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
•Architect of the
Krishnarajasagara dam – or KRS
or Brindavan gardens.
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.

10. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
•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

11. Sir M. V.’s great dream was to see India prosper through
industrialization.
In 1920 he published a book, “Reconstructing India”
& in 1934, “Planned Economy for India.”
He coined the slogans, “Produce or perish”, and
“Industrialize or perish.”

12. AWARDS
1) 1906 : "Kaisar-i-Hind" in recognition of
his services
2) 1911 : C.I.E. (Companion of the Indian
Empire) at the Delhi Durbar
3) 1915 : K.C.I.E. (Knight Commander of
the Order of the Indian Empire)
4) 1921 : D.Sc. – Calcutta University
5) 1943 : Elected as an Honorary Life
Member of the Institution of Engineers(I)
6) 1944 : D.Sc. – Allahabad
7)1904 : Honorary Membership of London
Institution of Civil Engineers for
The Knight Commander Of The
Indian Empire

13. • 1948 : Doctorate - LLD., Mysore Uni.
• 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

14. 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 in

15. • 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

16. The End
On 14-April-1962 at 6.15am at the age of 102 years,, Sir M
V breathed his last, peacefully.
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