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'''L. Venkatakrishna Iyer''' was an Indian civil engineer and the Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department of the State of [[Tamil Nadu]].<ref name="Our own MIT">{{cite web | url=http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2023%20No%2023/our-own-mit.html | title=Our own MIT | publisher=Madras Musings | date=March 2014 | access-date=July 7, 2016}}</ref> It was Iyer who did the survey and submitted the initial proposal for building a reservoir across [[Godavari river]] near Polavaram in 1941 which was later commissioned as [[Polavaram Project]].<ref name="Gujja2006">{{cite book|author=Biksham Gujja|title=Perspectives on Polavaram, a Major Irrigation Project on Godavari|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HSnDO8Nlj2IC&pg=PA27|year=2006|publisher=Academic Foundation|isbn=978-81-7188-578-7|pages=27–}}</ref> An alumnus of the [[Town Higher Secondary School]], [[Kumbakonam]],<ref name="150 years in the service of education">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/150-years-in-the-service-of-education/article5629728.ece | title=150 years in the service of education | publisher=The Hindu | date=29 January 2014 | access-date=July 7, 2016}}</ref> he was among the few who assisted [[Chinnaswami Rajam]] in founding [[Madras Institute of Technology]] (MIT) and sat on the core committee which oversaw the establishment of the institution.<ref name="History">{{cite web | url=http://www.mitindia.edu/en/home/history | title=History | publisher=Madras Institute of Technology | date=2016 | access-date=July 7, 2016}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1961, for his contributions to society.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=January 3, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=November 15, 2014 }}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Chinnaswami Rajam]]<br />
* [[Town Higher Secondary School]]<br />
* [[Polavaram Project]]<br />
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