Brain Drain

Brain drain a well discussed topic, what it means is skilled people are leaving country but I think is problem is not up to the skilled people it is probably more than that. In addition to skilled people students seeking for higher educations leaving country. The most certain question after this is WHY?

If we think on this, we can come up with several reasons why people want to leave India or more specifically why they want to settle in foreign countries. I am going to focus on one of the aspect of brain drain that is students leaving India for higher education.

Today students seeking higher education, prefer other countries over India.

One of the most striking reason behind this is dearth of quality education, even though we have institutes like IITs, IIMs, Nits. There are few thousands seats in these institutes and more than a million applicants. That is why students choose the path with less hindrance, where they get fair selection process and more importantly quality education which they might not get in the institutes other than the ones stated above. When these people leave India and prefer to stay there even after education then they became ‘NRI’ They don’t want to come back because they feel insecure regarding job and the compensation for the services they give. They are afraid that they might need to struggle. Is this what we call brain drain? No. The answer is certainly no because we are responsible for this situation and we need to find a solution for this.

According to me,; the solution to this problem can be increasing the institutes like IIT and making selection process more transparent. This can bring back the faith the students have lost over so many years in the selection process & the system as a whole. One more thing that canprove to be a solution to this problem is conducting more research at institutes and encouraging research by providing funding by government.

I think this will make some effect on the problem stated above. Even tough these effects will not be seen in just one year, it is same like you asking fruit on other day when a plant is just planted in the soil.