'Economic planning' has today become an accepted idea, but in Sir M.V.'s time it was mocked and met with resistance. By the time it was understood as mandatory for growth, people had forgotten that Sir M.V. was the originator of the idea. In fact, Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar, who as a member of the erstwhile Madras government discussed the sharing of the Cauvery waters with "tolerant disputant" Visvesvaraya, writes in his centenary tribute: "It has been a source of much concern to me that, during the last ten years, Sir M.V.'s advice and co-operation (meaning post-Independence period) were not more fully utilised in the planning programmes of thecentral government. But nevertheless, what we are now attempting is veritably the result of his example, of his unwearied preaching and his memorable achievements in many parts of this country in the fields of planning and social, industrial and economic regeneration."