Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya or Sir MV, as many would call him, is one of the Indian pioneers who contributed their lives to engineering a new and better India. The Bharat Ratna awardee is often credited for being a nation builder who extended his expertise in areas like irrigation, railways, flood disaster management among others.
Hence, to honour his efforts and contribution, his birthday, September 15, is reportedly observed as Engineer’s Day in India, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.
Several people took to social media to pay their tributes to the renowned statesman.
In 1967 Indian Engineer Damyanti Hingorani Became The First Degreed Female Engineer to Be Hired by Ford Motor Company In Detroit , USA
Damyanti Gupta Did Her Engineering From India #EngineersDay pic.twitter.com/JMQqLyqzsQ
— indianhistorypics (@IndiaHistorypic) September 15, 2020
Tribute to the great Indian engineer and scholar, the Bharat Ratna Visvesvaraya on his Birth Anniversary and Greetings to all Engineers on National Engineers Day. #EngineersDay2020 pic.twitter.com/NquKRCMaDK
— Achyuta Samanta (@achyuta_samanta) September 15, 2020
Remembering Bharat Ratna Mokshagundam Vishveshvaraya Garu on his birth anniversary celebrated as #EngineersDay . With brilliant minds comes the solutions for all those unsolved problems. Engineers are those brilliant minds that can bring a positive change.#EngineersDay2020 pic.twitter.com/oTjfoy90mX
— stanleybabu (@stanleybabu) September 15, 2020
They build the world -Civil Engineer
They build the magic world- Computer Engineer
They connect the world- Electronics & Communication Engineer
They are the powers of the world -Electrical Engineer
They move the world- Mechanical Engineer
happy Engineer's day #EngineersDay2020 pic.twitter.com/fcgG9hFXZm— Bharti (@gold2mirror) September 15, 2020
Among them were some who gave a witty spin to the celebrations and flooded social media with funny jokes and memes. Take a look:
a person who control and maintain everything except Engineering😅🔥#happyengineersday#Engineering#EngineersDay2020#EngineeringJobs#aajkaengineer pic.twitter.com/qOgldRVa9g
— Kailash kumar (@Kailash68494626) September 15, 2020
#EngineersDay2020
Others. Engineers pic.twitter.com/ThImiW6Dbu— meme_gurl_💋✌️ (@Sarcastic_kudi_) September 15, 2020
If we can survive engineering then we can survive anything 🦾#EngineersDay2020 pic.twitter.com/iCixATs6eo
— Ṗṙḕṁ🖤👑 (@b_u_n_n__y) September 15, 2020
My Engineering Friends After Graduation pic.twitter.com/fAOARMPafX
— Yashwant Verma 🇮🇳 (@Vermacasm) September 15, 2020
Today is #EngineersDay
Le engineering's at home with no work : #EngineersDay2020 pic.twitter.com/7tUTRgSUep— Avinash Kn⚡ (@knaviinash) September 15, 2020
On this #EngineersDay2020 lets see some of most unforgetable #Engineers work….
When enginneers bunk their classes…. pic.twitter.com/3Kb9Ipq8mj
— Just TWEET.. (@difficultoneto) September 15, 2020
Kids after 12 : #Engineering kr leta hoon bhut scope hai.
Le #Engineers who are unemployed :#EngineersDay2020 pic.twitter.com/kg2HVbnMTo— Abhilekh (@pandey__ghij) September 15, 2020
Life after engineering :
Expectations Reality #happyengineersday pic.twitter.com/IFUEpDHSj5
— charchit_champ (@charchitchamp) September 15, 2020
Happy Engineers day to this man also who tought us what is real engineering #happyengineersday #EngineersDay2020 pic.twitter.com/UnI8RhEFl0
— Shubham Kaushik (@shubhamkaushikk) September 15, 2020
#EngineersDay2020 #Engineering #engineerday #happyengineersday #visvesvaraya 🙏 pic.twitter.com/4Jr8jHHvfO
— FiDuS AcHaTeS 🕵️ (@niraj014) September 15, 2020
Happy Engineera Day friends…#EngineersDay #EngineersDay2020 #Engineering pic.twitter.com/pv45D39EE6
— shaikh faisal شیخ فیصل (@faisalfarokh786) September 15, 2020
Happy #Engineering day
koi fayaada nhi— PARADOX ♻️ (@luv_bhagat) September 15, 2020
My Engg. professor after seeing my final year project #EngineersDay2020 #engineer #engineering pic.twitter.com/adAP2tcRow
— Sarcasm Fun Ltd. (@SarcasmFunLtd) September 15, 2020
You call it Engineers Day.
I call it Berozgar Diwas.We are not same 🙃#EngineersDay #engineering #EngineersDay2020 #engineer
— Buddhi Bhaiya (@buddhi_bhaiya) September 15, 2020
Happy #EngineersDay2020 ❤️
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.#Engineering #EngineersDay pic.twitter.com/njAxkq38rl— Sudhanshu (@Sudzada) September 15, 2020
#EngineersDay
All-rounder Engineer💪 pic.twitter.com/BlDYQKcWdF— Kisslay Jha🇮🇳 (@TrollerBabua) September 15, 2020
The ‘Missile Man’ of India who was our 11th President was also a renowned engineer and among the world’s most accomplished leaders. Happy Engineer’s Day, guys!