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Do not Disgrace Sir.M.Vishvesraiah.
At the portals of S.K.S.J Technological institute, Bangalore, our seniors had warned us that, we should pay our respects to Mokshagundum, everyday to get total moksha from the rigors of professional education. Having not known which fearsome God ,it was, we had spent some early anxious days until, we found out that, he is none other than our professor and vice-principal, a soft spoken and scholarly Mokshagundum
Krishnamurthy,the nephew & heir to sir M.Viswesraiah.. During April 1962, some of us who were awaiting our final results had called on him at his residence in Bangalore to pay our respects and express our condolence on the death of his uncle Mokshagundum Visweshraiah at the ripe age of 101 years. He was chief Engineer, secretary to M.S.M Railways and Divan of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore, from 1908 to 1918. one of the best administered states during the British rule in India. Sir M.V.as he was respectively known was always impeccably and immaculately dressed in his 3 piece suite and gold rimed Mysore Petta ,but never flouted the honours bestowed on him like C.I.E(Companion of the Indian empire) K.C.I.E(Knight commander of the Indian empire) and many more. It is worthwhile to note that his birthday is celebrated every year as Engineer’s day all over India. He was awarded the nation’s highest award the Bharat Ratna posthumously. With such fond memories of a great soul, I was shocked and irked to read in your newspaper columns that the Kelgeri tank at Dharwad was built by sir M.V. during the year 1911 and a statue is being proposed at the banks of the tank. The basis for this seems to be an inscription on a stone pillar at the Kelgeri bridge stating that it was the work of the Dharwad municipality under its water supply scheme and it was inaugurated by Mr. Gibbs I.C.S. on march 1911.
The names of the municipal councilors, executive engineers and the name of one
At the portals of S.K.S.J Technological institute, Bangalore, our seniors had warned us that, we should pay our respects to Mokshagundum, everyday to get total moksha from the rigors of professional education. Having not known which fearsome God ,it was, we had spent some early anxious days until, we found out that, he is none other than our professor and vice-principal, a soft spoken and scholarly Mokshagundum
Krishnamurthy,the nephew & heir to sir M.Viswesraiah.. During April 1962, some of us who were awaiting our final results had called on him at his residence in Bangalore to pay our respects and express our condolence on the death of his uncle Mokshagundum Visweshraiah at the ripe age of 101 years. He was chief Engineer, secretary to M.S.M Railways and Divan of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore, from 1908 to 1918. one of the best administered states during the British rule in India. Sir M.V.as he was respectively known was always impeccably and immaculately dressed in his 3 piece suite and gold rimed Mysore Petta ,but never flouted the honours bestowed on him like C.I.E(Companion of the Indian empire) K.C.I.E(Knight commander of the Indian empire) and many more. It is worthwhile to note that his birthday is celebrated every year as Engineer’s day all over India. He was awarded the nation’s highest award the Bharat Ratna posthumously. With such fond memories of a great soul, I was shocked and irked to read in your newspaper columns that the Kelgeri tank at Dharwad was built by sir M.V. during the year 1911 and a statue is being proposed at the banks of the tank. The basis for this seems to be an inscription on a stone pillar at the Kelgeri bridge stating that it was the work of the Dharwad municipality under its water supply scheme and it was inaugurated by Mr. Gibbs I.C.S. on march 1911.
The names of the municipal councilors, executive engineers and the name of one