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The Institution of Engineers (I), an all India, non-governmental organization of democratic professional body of Engineering fraternity incorporated under Royal charter  read more News Letter
Meetings held
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Important Milestones
Achievements
Honors
Works of Sir. M. Visvesvaraya
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Guiding Principles
  • Never to use One's Official position to bestow favor on his relatives
  • An ounce of neatness is equal to a ton of efficiency A well dressed person does things in a much better way than a slovenly one
  • That a person who is neat in his dress can be clean and straight in his life.
  • Industrialize or perish
  • Always work hard.
  • Always support a worthy cause at any cost.
  • Nature never excuses Lapses.
  • He never tolerated slipshod work! He wanted things to be precise and not vague
  • He was very punctual and expected everybody to be so.
  • He never lost an opportunity to stimulate drive, action, alertness and hustle in everybody who happened to meet him.
  • Five hours for nature, seven for a very busy man and nine means lazy was his rational budget for sleep.
  • Hard work performed in a disciplined manner will in most cases keep the worker fit and also prolong his life.
  • Every man who has become great owes his achievements to incessant toil.
  • The way to build a nation is to build a good citizen. The majority of the Citizens should be efficient of good character and posses a reasonably high sense of duty.
  • Leaders should be truly patriotic and should believe in rectitude of conduct, Men of Merit and capacity should be the criteria for all special jobs and government appointments.
  • Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
  • Standard of efficiency is not determined by what we wish but by what we cannot tolerate
  • In essentials unity, In non essentials liberty, In all things charity.
  • Duty before comfort was his ideal
  • He believed in the famous maxim "Everything worth doing is worth doing well".
  • Seek opportunities for service without waiting for a call.
  • If we are to progress we have to implicitly enforce the American methods of " Hustle" and German methods of hard work.
  • Remember God helps those who help themselves.
  • He did not like to be under any one's obligation
  • He was punctual not only in keeping his engagement but also in all other respects.
  • The note books and pencils were his inseparable companions.
  • He was in a hurry, in a very great hurry to catch up with the progressive countries of the west on at least with Japan the rising sun of the east.
  • Live within your income, have a purpose to give you any pleasure.
  • He has said that it is worth while in life to make a pleasure of duty than a duty of pleasure.

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Committee of the Institution of Engineers (India) for the
Sessions : 2006 - 2008
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