Kanwar Sen

Kanwar Sain, also known as Rai Bahadur Kanwar Sain Gupta OBE (1899–1979) was a civil engineer from Haryana state in India. He was the chief engineer in the Bikaner state who came up with idea of Rajasthan Canal. He also successfully implemented the Ganga canal project which expanded into Indira Gandhi Canal. He was considered a leading irrigation engineer of his time.

He was born in 1899 in Tohana district Fatehabad (Haryana). He was educated at D.A.V. College, Lahore. He graduated as a civil engineer with honours from Thomason College of Civil Engineering, Roorkee (now, IIT Roorkee) in 1927. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1956. His memoir, 'Reminiscences of an Engineer' was published in 1978.

He was chairman of Central Water and Power Commission, Ministry of Irrigation and Power, Government of India. Kanwar Sain and Karpov (1967) presented enveloping curves for Indian rivers. Provided by Wikipedia