Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan paid tribute to the great engineer Bharat Ratna awardee Sir Mokshagundam Vishveshvraiya on his birth anniversary.
CM Chouhan garlanded his portrait and paid floral tributes in the auditorium at the residence office. Sir Vishveshvraiya was a great engineer and diplomat of India. He was awarded India's highest honour Bharat Ratna in the year 1955. In India his birthday is celebrated as Engineer's Day.
Visvesvaray was born on September 15, 1860 in Kolar district of Karnataka.