Every year, Engineer’s day is celebrated on 15th September in India. Engineer’s day is celebrated in honor of the birth of Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya who was a great Indian engineer and statesman. Sir M. V. was born at Muddenahalli village, Chikballapur Taluka in the Kolar District of present-day Karnataka, Mysore. Besides being an Ayurvedic practitioner, his father Srinivasa Sastry was a Sanskrit scholar and an authority on the Hindu scriptures. His father died when he was 15 years old. Sir M. V. completed his primary school at Chikballapur and high school at Bangalore. He took his B.A. from Madras University in 1881 and later studied civil engineering at the College of Science, Pune, now known as the College of Engineering, Pune (COEP).Visvesvarayya took up a job with the Public Works Department (PWD) of Mumbai. After that, he was later invited to join the Indian Irrigation Commission.
An extremely intricate system of irrigation was implemented by him in the Deccan area. In 1903, a system of automatic weir water floodgates was also designed and patented by him, which were first installed, at the Khadakvasla reservoir near Pune. These gates were employed to raise the flood supply level of storage in the reservoir to the highest level likely to be attained by its flood, without causing any damage to the dam. This same system was installed at the Tigra dam in Gwalior and the Krishnaraja Sagara (KRS) dam which is based on the success of these gates in Mysore.
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