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Happy birthday to one of finest engineers of Modern India ,Bharat Ratna Dr.Mokshagundam Vishwesrayya .

1.He designed and patented a system of automatic weir water floodgates that were first installed in 1903 at the Khadakvasla Reservoir near Pune.

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These gates were employed to raise the flood supply level of storage in the reservoir to the highest level likely to be attained without causing any damage to the dam. #HappyEngineersDay 2/n
Based on the success of these gates, the same was installed at the Tigra Dam in Gwalior & the Krishna Raja Sagara (KRS) Dam in Mandya/Mysore, Karnataka.

2.The water supply and drainage project prepared by him was implemented in Aden (Yemen) successfully.

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