India celebrates 15th September as the Engineer’s Day in remembrance of the notable engineer, Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. The engineering in India has seen a glorious era during the period of this Telugu Brahmin engineer. Sir Visvesvaraya has contributed a lot to the nation in terms of water weir flood gates, improvements in irrigation, building railway bridges & water supply schemes, construction of dams, economic development of India, building of the nation and many more. To commemorate the birthday of this great personality, the Council of the Institution decided to observe September 15 as the Engineers’ Day every year.
I entered the institute and started wishing everyone “Happy Engineer’s Day”. And the reaction from many was like “aaj engineer’s day hai kya??”, some could not react anything and ended up saying “good morning ” with a shy smile. Very less could manage to handle the situation by replying back the same wishing statement to me though it was very clear that they were not sure about the day.
I entered my cabin and closed the door. I pushed the window curtain to one side. The drapes slid smoothly on the curtain rod allowing the morning sun rays into my cabin. I could see through my window glass, the security guard was restricting some students to enter inside the campus as they were not in proper uniform. But the students started arguing with the guard instead of admitting their mistake 😡 .
The later action on the incident has not been mentioned in the post as felt like not required. The matter of discussion is that we as an engineer have lost the sense of accountability. I started analyzing why the remembrance of the Engineer’s Day has faded out even from many engineers’ memory; forget about non-engineers. While every year Lakhs of students get graduated as engineer, Lakhs enroll themselves as engineer; then also why this September 15 as an Engineer Day is getting ignored!! While we remember the date of Independence day, birthday of the Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi even the birth-dates of many of our friends then why not the date of Engineer’s Day. While thinking on this, surprisingly a funny answer (which may not be true 😛 ) came into my mind. Probably we remember the 15th Aug and 2nd Oct as we get a holiday on these days and not for the importance of respect for these days. These days are no more considered as the fuel for reigniting the cause behind the celebration.
Coming to the incident of non-uniformed students; how can a nation expect a social serve from a citizen who is not organized, not disciplined and having no sense of regret for his/her mistake, while being a student. Technical contribution is a different story but “Can we expect a social or national contribution from these future citizens of India which will reflect the face of the national culture in the world mirror” is a BIG QUESTION!!
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Yes this is great. We should remember such personalities and should celebrate days like engineer days. There use to be lot of hype for days like Valentine and Friendship, but no one even care to post about such an important day.
Great post 🙂
-Nitin
Hey Nitin,
Very true. I feel somewhere the current generation is loosing its responsibility and accountability. A social consciousness should be spread out to fight with this. Thanks for your appreciation.
Engineers day! Surprise surprise surprise everyone when somebody use this word , a sense of hesitation and shyness clearly appear on their face not only whom engineers day directed for but also who is trying to memories it, as completeness is totally missed .
Why ? Why an engineer like me and many more forget an engineer’s day ? Not only engineers day but also many other important days as you already mentioned. Look at me i am wasting my time in making thousand of excuses that are totally absurd. Look at me i never feel that i am an engineer, moreover i never understand what is an engineer/ how they work ?how they walk?How and what they think? I does not mean me alone, i means ‘I’. In straight word we don’t understand the reason of celebration.
We everyday come across many such mischievous incidents. But if we think why they used to with this type of wrong activities as if it is their burning rights. Then suddenly an another question come to my mind, “are they aware about their mistake? “. The answer is yes. So I thought that there is a requirement of culture reformation must. The contamination in the culture is not only found at the students, but also found at many human being in this country. I have ever experimented on thong over 100 different people from different places of our country where it was found that around 80% of them gets pleasure after doing a mischievous work. The mischievous work may be for example finding a different meaning of a given quote written on the street wall or at any public place by removing some letters from that given quote. No one is their to blame them or to criticize them. Even in the system their is no rule to punish them. So we such aware persons should think and work such a way so that the reformation of the human culture can be possible.
Jai Hind
Yes the reformation of human culture is very much necessary. But the individual has to learn to respect the values of moral sense. Until and unless it will not be there the reformation can’t be achieved.
If we flash back our life one thing you must find that we have lost that is unity. There is always dividing rule applied to avoid the unity. Actually I wanted to notice that this lost of the unity is the root cause of loosing the meaning of social responsibility. So unity is must in every revolution of change.
I agree that unity is must in every revolution of change. But social awareness and responsibility should be there at the individuality level. Everyone should have a sense of guilt if something wrong is going on. If it can be done then achieving the united social awareness will be simpler.