Engineers day which is celebrated 15th of September in Memory Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya who is world renowned Indian Engineer whose contribution was remarkable in field of hydel energy utilization in India
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was born to Srinivasa Sastry and Venkachamma at Muddenahalli village, Kanivenarayanapura hobli, Chikkaballapur District of present-day Karnataka.
The young Visvesvaraya lost his father at the age of 15.
He earned his B.A. from the Madras University in 1881 and later studied civil engineering at the College of Science, Pune, now known as the College of Engineering, Pune (COEP).
