Industrialize or perish.M. Visvesvaraya
“Remember, your work may be only to sweep a railway crossing, but it is your duty to keep it so clean that no other crossing in the world is as clean as yours.”
“Remember, your work may be only to sweep a railway crossing, but it is your duty to keep it so clean that no other crossing in the world is as clean as yours.”
— M. VISVESVARAYA
Civil engineer and statesman · 1861 – 1962
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was an Indian civil engineer who designed the Krishna Raja Sagara dam and served as Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918. A pioneer of planned industrialisation whose slogan was 'Industrialize or perish', he founded institutions including the Mysore Soap Factory and the State Bank of Mysore.
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