Raipur, September 16, 2011
Engineers have played key role in development of Chhattisgarh. Now it is time for them to set new standards for youths so that all creative brains could together make the state number one in the country. The words were expressed by Governor Shekhar Dutt on while he was speaking on the occasion of Engineers’ day at Raipur medical college auditorium on Thursday night.
Earlier, while remembering Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya on whose name Engineers’ day is being celebrated every year on September 15, Dutt said he was the pioneer of modern day-engineering as he entered in the field some 150 years back when only a couple of Indians were exploring it.
The chairman of Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation (CMDC) Gaurishankar Agrawal, who presided over the programme, urged the engineers to make optimum use of available resources of the state for its development.
The convenor of the programme Mahesh Kakkad said soon the engineers association would send a work plan as a suggestion to the state government to develop agriculture, infrastructure and industrial sector in an organised manner.
Retired chief engineer PN Singh informed about the contribution the engineers made in the development of the state since its formation.
On the occasion, he gave ‘engineer of the year award’ to Ganesh Ram Sinha from Bhilai. Dutt also felicitated 20 more engineers with ‘best engineer’ award. The engineers who received this award were – CP Sharma, Hemraj Kutare, BS Bisen, SD Diwan, Arun Verma, AR Kashyap, Pradeep Agrawal, KK Verma, Prem Kakkad, Vidyut Majumdar, CH Nagraju, Brijesh Hurkat, Rahul Agrawal, Sudhanshu tailing, Akash Agrawal, Ajay Sahu, KVS Ravindra, D Satish Kiran, Purnima Saxena and Sanjay Rungta.
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