Highly Skilled individuals from India are choosing foreign countries
as an arena to showcase their talents. But how is it affecting India?
The dictionary meaning of
Brain Drain says that Human Capital Flight or Brain Drain is the large scale
emigration of a large number of individuals with technical skill or knowledge.
Brain Drain along with being a problem itself is a reflection of all other
problems prevalent in India. It can’t be said that Human Capital Flight is an
obstacle to the development of India but certainly it has contributed to a
slower pace of development. The problem of Brain Drain in India is not a new
born but an age old problem of the 1990s or earlier. The biggest contributors
for Brain Drain are believed to be better lifestyles in the host nation and
better opportunities for progressing. While India has failed to provide the
best opportunities for the most fertile minds host nations have lured them for
their good. Brain Drain has not only deprived the nation of the better ideas
and innovation it has had direct economic effects as well. Statistics reveal
that the brain-drain of software engineers alone costs India $2 billion a year.
The total amount lost from every field of human capital threatens to be enormous.
In a recently released report from the Union HRD Ministry about fee structure
in IIT s said that an average of 8 Lakh is spent on every student for a 4-year
BE course against the meager 2 Lakh paid by the student. This means that for
every student that studies in the IIT and moves abroad to work for MNCs there
is a loss of 6 Lakh rupees. 
Though Brain Drain is a
serious enough problems it’s not all about bad. An interesting statement made
in the period of Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s rule said that it’s better to have brain
drain then to have no brain in the drain. This meant that although through
Brain Drain but its good those individuals are getting employed. Our visionary
ex-president Sir A P J Abdul Kalam said that the 25 million Indians abroad
going for wealth creation who have a strong connection to India is a gain for
us. In a globalised market, people will come and go. Many foreigners will come
here too. Experienced individuals working abroad when return back bring with
themselves new ideas to work which is a big boon.
These benefits do not mean
that brain drain does not need to be tackled. Work has been initiated in this
field but there is still way to go. Government must generate the work
environment and provide the infrastructure necessary to ripe the crop India has
sown. It is also important for the individuals to remember what all the land
has given him. We must remember that we are indebted by our land from the
moment we take our first breath. We must pay back a small fraction by working
in the nation and for the nation. A beautiful India is waiting…get up youth,
it’s all yours.
helped alot thanks
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