Raja Jwala Prasad

Raja Jwala Prasad (1872 – 16 September 1944) was an Indian civil engineer, and Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. He was the father of Indian bureaucrat Dharma Vira.

Life

Jawala Prasad was born in Mandawar town of Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh. He studied engineering from Tomson Civil Engineering College, Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), graduating in 1900.[1] He joined the Irrigation Department as Chief Engineer in Uttar Pradesh. He was responsible for the Ganga Canal Grid Scheme constructed in 1924. The British government honored him with the title of Raja. After retiring from government service in 1930, he became the Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. In 1937, he was chairman of a committee to reorganize Thomason College of Engineering Roorkee, though this reorganization was not carried out until after Independence.[2] He died on September 16, 1944.

He planned the campus of BHU and its construction was also done under his supervision.[3] He helped a lot of Madan Mohan Malaviya in collecting donations .

References
  1. [w.iitr.ac.in/institute/pages/Heritage+Luminaries.html "Luminaries: Raja Jwala Prasad"] Check |url= value (help). Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  2. Das Gupta, Uma (1999). "Thomson College of Engineering, Roorkee, 1847-1947". Science and Modern India: an Institutional History c.1784–1947. History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization vol XV pt. 1. Pearson Education India. p. 468.
  3. Singh, Bharat. "Water Resources Development: The Role of Roorkee". University of Roorkee. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
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