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  • Happy Engineer’s Day! – September 15th

    Engineer’s Day celebrated by Engineers in India on September 15 every year.

    Engineer’s Day is celebrated on every 15th September of every year as a birthday celebration of the famous engineer Sir M. Visvesvaraya (1861-1962). Also know as Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Sir M.V) . Sir M.V was a vegetarian and he lead a simple life. He worked as a deewan of Mysore too. Sir M.V. retired in 1908 and Sri Krishnarajendra Wodeyar, Maharaja of Mysore, was eager to secure the services of Visvesvaraya to serve Mysore. He joined as Chief Engineer in Mysore because he wanted challenging opportunities. Sir M.V. had earned a reputation for his honesty, integrity, ability and intelligence.

    When Sir M. Visvesvaraya was doing engineering, Govt. of Bombay offered him a job and appointed as Assistant Engineer at Nasik. As an engineer, he has done wonderful job. He planned a way of supplying water from the river Sindhu to a town called Sukkur (Now in Pakistan). He devised a new irrigation system called the Block System. He devised steel doors to stop the wasteful flow of water in dams. He was the architect of the Krishnaraja Sagara dam in Mysore. The list is endless.

    Among his most successful projects are the design and construction of the K.R. Sagar dam and its adjoining Brindavan Gardens, turn-around of the Bhadravati Iron and Steel Works, setting up of the Mysore Sandalwood Oil Factory and the founding of the Bank of Mysore.

    Some of Sir M. Vishveshwaraiah’s footprints & visionary contribution to India via his personal involvement and/or visionary designs for others to execute :

    1. Mysore’s KRS dam having the world’s 1st automatic gates
    2. Pune’s Khadakvasla dam
    3. Odisha’s Mahanadi flood restriction scheme
    4. Nation’s first compulsory education scheme
    5. MP’s Gwalior Tiger dam
    6. Poona Deccan club
    7. Jachamarajendra Professional training inst
    8. Hebbal Agri research inst
    9. Bengaluru public libraries
    10. UVCE Engineering college
    11. Cubbon park century club
    12. Sandal oil factory
    13. Printing press
    14. Bhatkal harbour
    15. Hindu modern hotel
    16. Block system irrigation
    17. Paracitoids lab
    18. Mysore sugar factory
    19. Sandal soap manufacturing
    20. Mysore Univ
    21. Shivanasamudra electrical plant
    22. Jog falls electricity
    23. KRS dam
    24. HAL
    25. Bhadravati steel factory
    26. Soap factory
    27. State Bank of Mysore
    • Vishveshwaraiah did so much for AP, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Odisha, MP & even Sindh, Pak. Remarkable Indian!
    • Vishveshwaraiah built Mysore dam in just 4yrs, not with concrete, but lime & jaggary 80 yrs ago! It STILL doesn’t leak.
    • In 2001 Gujarat Earthquake, Kutch & Bhuj got severely damaged. But water supply wasn’t. Thanks to Vishveshwaraiah!
    • IT capital of India, Bengaluru gets over 50% of water from Cauvery river. Effort of Vishveshwaraiah 100+ yrs back!
    • Mumbai’s Powai tank bund has seen massive growth like IIT. Vishveshwaraiah was instrumental in area’s development.
    • Gujarat’s Baroda city still gets water from the project setup by Vishveshwaraiah 50 KM from the city, long long ago!
    • Nizamsagar & Hussainsagar dams were designed by Vishveshwaraiah, after massive 1908 Iyani & Musi flood in Hyderabad.
    • Karnataka govt honored Bharat Ratna Vishveshwaraiah’s contributions by naming a university on him.

  • JMET to go, IITs to use only CAT score for admission.

    Admission to the management courses of the IITs (Indian Institute of Technology) will no longer require Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) scores. It was recently announced that JMET would be scrapped and the IITs would accept only the CAT scores.

    This move comes closely after the statement by the All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman, S.S. Mantha that there should be only one entrance exam for all MBA aspirants. While the HRD ministry, in a press release, said that it would not be possible to have one exam for all management programmes, this move by the IITs is expected to ease pressure on students, say academics.

    For the last four years, the IITs were accepting both the CAT and JMET scores. “There was a large number of students who took both the examinations. There is very little difference between the pattern of the two examinations, as both focus on assessing the aptitude of students,” says Prof. L.S. Ganesh, Department of Management Studies, IIT-Madras.

    The quantitative section of the JMET is, however, considered to be more aligned to mathematics. “It is a myth that the JMET is taken only by engineering graduates. IITs require the applicant to have completed four years of any graduation programme,” said Mr. Ganesh. The IITs will continue to lay emphasis on the section-wise score of applicants, rather than the percentile scores. “Even a small difference of 0.25 marks in every section will make a difference in the selection process, which is not effectively reflected in the percentile scores,” says Mr. Ganesh.

    Source : The Hindu

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