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Engineer-Statesman
Learned Society
Sir M Visvesvaraya Initiatives
Engineer-Statesman
Sir M Visvesvaraya
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Foundation for Education Excellence
Publishing Organization for Indian Technology Congress Association
Reminiscence of the
Engineer-Statesman
Sir M Visvesvaraya
February 1944. The IEI from its early years had adopted Sir MV
as its role model and initiated many activities to commemorate
his life; and perpetuate and propagate his precepts in the minds
of current and future generations of engineers. The Mysore
Centre (Karnataka State Centre) and Bombay Centre
(Maharashtra State Centre) of the IEI were pioneering centres in
chronicling and proliferating Sir MV’s Engineering ideals to the
nation. Organising Sir MV’s centenary celebrations, crafting the
Engineers’ Day, instituting and presenting numerous Awards
and Rewards to motivate distinguished and young engineers,
unveiling portraits, statues, and busts of Sir MV throughout
India, creating competitions, and instituting Annual memorial
lectures were some of IEI’s initiatives to promote the postulates
of India’s finest engineer.
The reflections from his ideas at the beginning of the 1900s and
their relevance are still pertinent and worthwhile to be pursued
and imbibed by the Indian engineering community. His
illustrations from his famous speeches and celebrated
publications are still germane in the current day’s digital era. The
importance he accorded to educating engineers, his exhortation
to perfect skills in data collection and analysis, documentation
and statistical tools and analysis, and the role of professional
bodies in continuous lifelong learning are highly respected and
pertinent.
Sir MV had the passion for translating his ideas and experiences
into writing. From the earliest days, he wrote articles dealing
with economic and engineering progress. Sir MV was passionate
about engineering and was able to integrate economic principles
Reminiscence of the Engineer-Statesman, Sir M Visvesvaraya 8
The Author of this article was a former president of the IEI and is the
President of the Indian Technology Congress Association (ITCA) and
was personally inspired by Sir MV’s ideology and philosophy of
engineering programs. In commemoration of India’s foremost engineer
and to inspire present and future generations of Indian engineers, he
has authored the publication “Engineer-Statesman: Bharat Ratna Sir M
Visvesvaraya” in 2010. He was instrumental in installing a life-size
statue of Sir MV in IEI-Karnataka Centre Campus and had fifteen busts
of Sir MV installed in various places of the country including the IEI
headquarters at Kolkata. He was also the Chairman for Sir MV’s
Sesquicentennial celebrations in 2010 held at Bangalore.
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