BRAIN DRAIN OF THE NEW KIND

BRAIN DRAIN

Sure everyone must have heard of this term. It is the loss of skilled intellectual and technical labour through the movement of such labour to more favorable geographic, economic, or professional environments.
And this happens a lot in India. It is really hard to believe that one-fourth
Of the IIT graduates leave this country for greener pastures in other countries.
What these new pastures offers won’t be difficult to answer. Besides monitory benefits, these ‘techies’ are given lot of other benefits. It is well known too that in the area of computer science, those leaving the country as a proportion of those trained is even higher. The government spends a lot of the taxpayers’ money on the IIT graduates and in return these graduates leave India for other countries in search of better opportunities.
Governments of developing countries attach a great deal of importance to higher education, especially in the sciences and in technology. Developed countries find in such trained people a ready-made recruitment pool. The poor spend on training; the rich make use of that training - at relatively low cost!
This perhaps is not known to everyone venturing out to make money. Though they are not to be blamed completely, lack of opportunities in our country and the big bad vicious circle of reservation is also to be put to blam
Agreed that there are a large number of people who want to make money and get opportunities outside, but there are people who want to nurture their skills in India, they might be denied this opportunity due to reservations etc.
It is case where nobody is perfect, the deserving people want opportunities but are unable to get it here. So they go abroad and hope to return back to one’s own country but as time goes by people forget their mother country.
The countries like the United States and other developed countries are in high need of skilled labor and if they depend only on their own people, each and every student would have to study science. So they pool on people from the developing world like India. Indian engineers and scientists played a huge role in setting up the Silicon Valley and as a matter of fact Intel, EBay and other well-known 'American' names were in fact conceived by non-US nationals.
But now when the Indian industry and software sector is booming there is a gradual increase in the people of Indian origin returning back home. The Silicon Valley of India- Bangalore is said to be a product of the ‘techies’ returning back to India. India’s dream of becoming a superpower by 2020 might remain a dream if the engineers and scientist of India leave for other countries. This is one kind of Brain drain.
The other type of brain drain is the movement of at least three fourths of engineering graduates moving to Software sectors because of higher pay packs and perks and maybe also air conditioned environments. This movement hampers the development in the core sector and as a result
The infrastructure growth comes to a standstill. This kind of brain drain is more persistent now, with the software sector offering better perks and pays than the core industries. In other countries the people don’t leave their domain and thus the core sector which is proportional to the infrastructure of the country flourish. The above two are the problems that India faces pertaining to brain drain.
These problems have to be taken care of at the earliest so that India can successfully become a super power by 2020.
To prevent this type of brain drain there should be adequate number of graduates who should take up careers in the core industrial sector. Also the industries should provide a competitive pay package to attract the students of various branches. The core sector should be able to provide benefits to the graduates so that they are not tempted to join the software sector. Also equal opportunities to join and good working environment should be provided.
To solve the traditional brain drain problem, tons of opportunities have to be provided in India and that has to be done without any bias. The graduates leaving India have to realize that if they stay they can take India to pinnacles of glory. There are many ways to achieve this, first of all the graduates are to be motivated to work in India for India and also show them the importance of becoming a powerful economy. India can mend the damages done by inviting the graduates who had left earlier and provide them with the technical opportunities they desire. The country requires rapid growth and development and more potential would create more help. The statistics says that a large chunk of the Indian tech pool is migrating towards the west in search of lucrative jobs and monitory empowerment, this should be prevented and this can be done by offering the same packages here. It might seem a daunting up hill task but it is still possible. This is possible only through proper management and planning, by giving them what they want plus the satisfaction of working in the motherland. With our own people or to put it in more clearer terms with our own brains on our sides we can do a great deal in our country and also reshape the future of our country and indeed look forward for 2020, the year when the
real heyday for India would begin.