Visvesvaraya award planned for engineers

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, SEPT. 15. The Minister for Major and Medium Irrigation, Mr. H. K. Patil, has said that the State Government will institute the Sir M. Visvesvaraya award for engineers this year.

``A selection committee has already been formed to draw up a list of those eligible,'' Mr. Patil said at the Engineers' Day function organised to commemorate the late visionary's 140th birth anniversary here on Friday.

Later, the PWD Minister, Mr. Dharam Singh, reacted to retired chief engineers' and former irrigation secretaries' demand for less political interference in their jobs. ``This is not the forum to reply to your demands. Besides, the Government will soon initiate a discussion with engineers as per the recommendations of the task force,'' he said.

The minister believed that bureaucratic attitude had to change, ``... not just that of the Government''.

Several former chief engineers and irrigation/PWD secretaries were honoured on the occasion.

The Ministers of State for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, and Minor Irrigation, Mr. M. Divakar Babu, and Mr. Kumar Bangarappa, respectively, also spoke at the function.

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