NMPT observes Engineers' Day

September 15, 2011

Mangalore, September 15: The New Mangalore Port Trust celebrated 151st Birth Anniversary of Sir M Visvesvaraya as Engineers' Day on Thursday, at Port Auditorium near here.

Prof. Babu Narayan of Civil Engineering Department, NITK was the chief guest of the programme.

In his key note address, he explained the qualities of Sir M V and gave presentation on taller, longer and stronger structures constructed at global level.

Dr P Tamilvanan, Chairman, NMPT, in his Presidential address congratulated all the engineer's and informed the engineer's to adopt discipline, punctuality and qualities of Sir M V and take mother port to greater heights.

Dr P Tamilvanan distributed the prizes to the winners of quiz and pick and speak programme for the high school children's conducted on account of Engineer's Day and also distributed the cash award to one each of the graduate and diploma engineer among the port employees children who scored highest marks in the final year Engineering stream exam of 2010-11.

During the occasion, F F Britto, Executive Engineer (Ele.) Retd., NMPT was felicitated. M R Hedaoo, Chief Engineer, (Civil) welcomed the gathering and Ivan A Montherio, Chief Mechanical Engineer proposed the vote of thanks. Aleshappa, Exe Engineer (Ele.) compered the programme.

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Though he said he was yet to study the budget in detail, Shivakumar asserted that Karnataka had gained little from it. “There is no benefit for our state from the central budget. I was observing it. They have now named a programme after Mahatma Gandhi, after repealing the MGNREGA Act that was named after him,” he said.

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