B. M. Sreenivasaiah  Dharamaprakasha Rajakarya Prasaktha Bhusanayana Mukundadas Sreenivasaiah was a philanthropist who founded India's first private engineering college BMS College of Engineering in 1946 at Bengaluru. He was awarded with the title "Dharamaprakasha Rajakarya Prasaktha" from then the Maharaja of Mysore in 1946.