Engineers Day (Sir M Visvesvaraya)

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Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, popularly and affectionately known as Sir M.V., was born on September 15, 1860 in a village known as Muddenahalli in Chikballapur Taluk, Kolar District. His father died in Kurnool when Visvesvaraya was just 15 years old. Visvevaraya completed his lower secondary schooling in Chikballapur. After schooling he joined Central College in Bangalore for his graduation.

He lead a very simple life. He was a strict vegetarian and a teetotaler. He would go to sleep by 10 P.M. and wake up at 6 A.M. His diet included a very light breakfast, two slices of bread or chappatis, vegetables without spices, rasam, curds, Nanjangud bananas for lunch. He was known for his honesty and integrity. Before accepting the position of Dewan of Mysore, he invited all his relatives for dinner. He told them very clearly that he would accept the prestigious office on the condition that none of them would approach him for favours. Such things are unheard of these days.

Some of the job positions he held were


1.Assistant Engineer, Bombay Government Service [in 1884]

2.Chief Engineer, Hyderabad State [he served only for 7 months starting April 15, 1909]

3.Chief Engineer in Mysore State [Nov 15, 1909]. He was also Secretary to the Railways.

4.President of Education and Industrial Development committees in Mysore State

5.Dewan of Mysore. [for six years starting 1912]

6.Chairman, Bhadravati Iron Works

7.Member of the Governing Council of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

8.Member of the Governing Council of Tata Iron and Steel Company [TISCO]

9.Member of Back Bay enquiry committee, London

10.Member of a committee constituted in 1917 to make recommendations regarding the future of Indian States.

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. He had introduced compulsory education in the State which later was embodied as a fundamental right in the Constitution of independent India.

To name few of the many things he was responsible for:

1.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.

2.Bhadravati Iron and Steel Works - as its Chairman he rescued it from becoming extinct.

3.Mysore Sandal Oil Factory and the Mysore soap factory

4.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 have a University of its own?"

5.State Bank of Mysore (it was first named The Bank of Mysore)

6.Public libraries in Mysore and Bangalore

7.Encouraging girls to attend school.

8.Mysore Chamber of Commerce

9.Kannada Sahitya Parishad or the Kannada Literary Academy

10.Sri Jayachamarajendra Occupational Institute, Bangalore - funded by the ENTIRE money [Rs 2 lacs] he earned from rescuing Bhadravati Iron Works

Sir M.V. was never interested in fame or publicity. But they came to him on their own. Every university in India sought him out to confer honoris causa. The univs of Allahabad, Andhra, Bombay, Calcutta, Jadhavpur, Mysore, Patna and Varanasi.

Some of the honours and laurels conferred on Sir M.V.,


1904 Honorary Membership of London Institution of Civil Engineers for an unbroken period of 50 years

1906 "Kaisar-i-Hind" in recognition of his services

1911 C.I.E. (Companion of the Indian Empire) at the Delhi Darbar

1915 K.C.I.E. (Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire)

1921 D.Sc. - Calcutta University

1931 LLD - Bombay University

1937 D.Litt - Benaras Hindu University

1943 Elected as an Honorary Life Member of the Institution of Engineers (India)

1944 D.Sc. - Allahabad University

1948 Doctorate - LLD., Mysore University

1953 D.Litt - Andhra University

1953 Awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Institute of Town Planners, India

1955 Conferred ' BHARATHA RATNA'(The gem of India), the highest dinstiction of the country

1958 'Durga Prasad Khaitan Memorial Gold Medal' by the Royal Asiatic Society Council of Bengal

1959 Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Sir M.V. belongs to that small band of eminent Indians whose ideas and achievements have been among the truly creative and formative force of modern India. Sir M.V.'s slogan was Industrialize or Perish and Mahatama Gandhiji's view was Industrialize and Perish. In 1921 Gandhiji launched his non-cooperation movement which Sir M.V. did not agree with. Sir M.V. wrote to Gandhiji urging him to be dressed better in view of the upcoming Round Table Conference. Sir M.V. used to be immaculately dressed.

The centenary of the birth of Sir M.V. was celebrated in Lal Bagh in Bangalore. Prime Minister Nehru flew down to Bangalore by a special plane to honour the greatest son of India. Sri Jayachamaraja Wodiyar presided over the function.

Sir. M.V. died on April 12, 1962 at the age of 102 years, 6 months and 8 days. As per his wish, he was cremated in his birth place, Muddanahalli.

Bank Balance

We read this information in "Indian Express" on March 24, 2005 (by Arindam Bhattacharjee). This article just shows how simple Sir MV was and how diligently he maintained his accounts.

Sir MV maintained an account with Bank of Mysore, which is now State Bank of Mysore. Sir MV had Rs 990 on March 27, 1918, which increased to Rs 11,487 on March 3, 1919. His account had thrice attracted interests of Rs 14, Rs 66 and Rs 117 during this period. An entry in the passbook on Nov 18, 1918 reveals he got Rs 13,486 transferred to this current account from a fixed deposit account.

Memorial at Muddenahalli

Feedback from Dharanendra: I am basically from Kolar. I recently visited to Muddenahalli for the first time.The memorial at Muddenahalli is good but it is not taken care well. It has become a gambler's pub and lover's paradise.

Not sure how he would react to the state of affairs in Karnataka or India in general if he was alive today. Government hesitates to release Rs 3 lakh for Karnataka's icon [May 5, 2008 / Deccan Herald].

How to Change People without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment...............?????????

Good leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience. This guide will help you through that process.

A leader's job often includes changing your people's attitudes and behavior. Some suggestions to accomplish this:

1.Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
2.Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.
3.Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other
person.
4.Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
5.Let the other person save face.
6.Praise the slightest improvement and praise every
improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in
your praise."
7.Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
8.Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
9.Make the other person happy about doing the thing you
suggest.

Win people to your way of thinking

1.The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
2.Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never
say, "You're wrong."
3.If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
4.Begin in a friendly way.
5.Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately.
6.Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
7.Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers.
8.Try honestly to see things from the other person's point
of view.
9.Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
10.Appeal to the nobler motives.
11.Dramatize your ideas.
12.Throw down a challenge.

Six ways to make people like you

1. Become genuinely interested in other people.
2. Smile.
3. Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
5. Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
6. Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely.

Fundamental Techniques in Handling People

1. Don't criticize, condemn or complain.
2. Give honest and sincere appreciation.
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.

"To be a leader means to be able to move masses"

"A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances."

-"A leader is a man who had the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it."

Leadership is not the positionIt is Responsibility

“Power can be delegated but responsibility cannot.”

yavodo payana elligo dariii....................................?

yavuda payana

SAVE W A T E R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Water is Too Precious to Waste

Black Box in Aeroplane & Choppers

The modern term "black box" seems to have entered the English language around 1945. The process of network synthesis from the transfer functions of black boxes can be traced to Wilhelm Cauer who published his ideas in their most developed form in 1941. Although Cauer did not himself use the term, others who followed him certainly did describe the method as black-box analysis Belevitch puts the concept of black-boxes even earlier, attributing the explicit use of two-port networks as black boxes to Franz Breisig in 1921 and argues that 2-terminal components were implicitly treated as black-boxes before that.

The modern day black box in the aviation industry was first conceived by David Warren of the then Aeronautical Research Laboratories of Melbourne, Australia[4] In point of fact, these are never coloured black but are painted a bright colour to aid location after a crash.



With any airplane crash, there are many unanswered questions as to what brought the plane down. Investigators turn to the airplane's flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR), also known as "black boxes," for answers. In Flight 261, the FDR contained 48 parameters of flight data, and the CVR recorded a little more than 30 minutes of conversation and other audible cockpit noises.

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