Many people wonder what the myth is behind Engineers day. Yes, today 15th September is celebrated as Engineers day in India.
It is a remark of great work done by sir M Visvesvarayya awarded with Bharat Ratna, an eminent engineer and also the statesman. He served as the chief engineer during construction of Krishna Raja Sagara on the Kaveri River near Mysore. He also built many dams in the Bombay presidency (present day Maharashtra). The dams built by him are still functional even today, a testimony to his brilliance, skill, honesty and dedication.
Our civil engineers must learn lesson from his building art work; Alas Indian government is gonna spend huge money in reconstruction of roads and bridges after every 5 years! Salute to local politicians and then to engineers:(!
Apart from this, my engineer friends are naughty enough. Some of them shared few interesting stories one of which I would like to share here.
One of them said that the 15th Sep is celebrated as a salute to the best indian engineer ever in construction. He was the force behind all creativity and intelligent design of the Howrah Bridge in Calcutta. And the amazing fact was that he never documented his plan on the paper! The complete layout was drafted in his mind only.
He was able to complete and he kept two doors each side of the bridge. He only kept one side of the door opened and the other side locked (for some unknown reason). Unfortunately, later he died and the West Bengal government asked rest of the team to open the second door as well. Bunch of engineers attempted to unlock it somehow. The door locks were crafted so intelligently that no one could even understand the structure of the lock. Still the one of the doors is unlocked on Howrah Bridge.
Isn’t it interesting? I am now excited to really go and see that locked door (along with that friend:)).
HAPPY ENGINEERS DAY!!!
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