1. Problem of Brain Drain in India
Brain Drain means the migration of highly qualified experts like doctors, engineers, scientist and
other trained persons from the under-developed countries to advancing countries. More or less, all the
backward countires are suffering from this problem. India is also suffering from this brain drain
seriously at the present moment.
Thus brain drain is a direct loss, of trained experts in many fields, to the under-developed and poor
countries. On the other hand, it is a net gain to the advanced countries. According to a UNO report,
every year thousands of experts are migrating from backward countries to advanced countries like
USA, UK, Canada, Germany etc. The under-developed countries are spending millions of rupees on the
training of these experts. But the advanced countries are utilizing their services without spending a
single penny on their training.
Every year, thousands of highly talented doctors, engineers, scientists and other intellectuals leave
India and migrate to foreign countries. They generally go to U.S.A, UK, Canada, West Germany, etc
for monetary gains and facilities for higher research. US is the biggest gainer from the loss of India
due to brain drain.
Most of the students who go abroad for higher studies do not return to India. After seeing, the affluent
life of foreign countries they lose all interest in their own country. Many Indians are teaching at
various US Universities and other Institutions of higher learning. Some of them are placed on quite
lucrative and high posts.
There are so many causes of the brain drain in India. First of all, there is the unemployment problem.
Even a talented person cannot get job. India is lacking in facilities for higher research work. The top
appointments are quite few in India. Thus the talented experts like to seek new pastures abroad.
There is another attraction of leading a higher standard of living in foreign countries, because the
technical experts and intellectuals, are give special facilities there. In foreign countries, there is the
advantage that while learning a person can also earn his own living. The stipends in foreign countries
are sufficient enough. A frugal Indian Student living there can also save something to send home.
There is no doubt that India is having vast natural and man power resources. If both these resources
are put to the maximum utilization astounding advancement can be achieved in all fields. These
technical and other talented reasons whom we lose every year, can greatly help in the development of
our natural resources. The government must take speedy steps to lure back home these talented sons
of India who are living abroad. These experts can surely help in making India a great power in the
world.
In this connection, even the people should also come forward and cooperate with the Government in
solving this problem. The parents of the students should not encourage them to go abroad and settle
there even if they are paid high salaries.
The doctors, engineers and scientists owe a duty to their motherland. Our nation is spending huge
amounts of money on their training. These people should not betray their own nation by serving
foreign nations. Today thousands of young Indian scientists and technicians are devoted the cause of
rebuilding our nation. The country has already achieved the nuclear status as well as become a space
power. There are enough opportunities for all the Indian scientists and engineers settled abroad, if
they come back to India. They should play an important role in future progress of our country and
share the honour of participating in this sacred task.
There is no doubt that India is bound to become one of the most industrialised and scientifically
advanced countries in the world. Let every Indian scientist, engineer and technician share the privilege
of participating in the noble task of building nation. Thus they can earn the gratitude of their people.

2. Brain Drain in India – Favorable or Unfavorable?
A brain drain is a large emigration of individuals with the Knowledge or
Technical skills, usually due to conflict, political instability, lack of
opportunity, or health risks. A brain drain is generally regarded as
an economic cost, because emigrants usually take with them the fraction of
value of their teaching sponsored by government.
Do you believe brain drain, regularly known as a main problem in our
country is essentially a bad thing? I don’t think so. In reality it is a big gift
that capable minds are able to depart the country and track their goals and
dreams elsewhere. At the first glimpse, it seems like a huge loss. A
significant number of young people are parting the country. It looks like the
state is loosing a lot of knowledgeable and educated workforce.
However, what will happen if they seal the borders and detain all this
talent inside the nation? Would they be able to grow and be as creative as
they would like to? Would they cause a technological revolution or will they
join the queue of unemployed people as well as produce more problems for
our already worried society?
The biggest benefit of brain drain is that all those individual brains will
get the opportunity to nurture in another atmosphere where they get more
support as well as have more freedom to boom and this is why they leave.
From a universal point of view, it will help talents develop and not be
shattered. Here is a plain example, a very intelligent friend of mine got a
medal in the International Physics Olympics as well as entered the university
with no concourse. He graduated with most excellent marks, passed the
Masters Entrance exam however was failed for some silly reason. For some
time he unsuccessfully tried to get around the difficulty, but at the end he
gave up and determined to study his masters out of the country. Now he is a
PhD as well as lives happily and works in the States. Would someone else in
his condition have done something else? I think no.
Furthermore, the knowledge that those young brilliant people gain
overseas will be very helpful if they choose in a later phase to go back as
well as settle down or engage in their country. The fact that young cultured
people leave the country in the present situation is not only good for
themselves however is also good for the world.

3. However on the other side, Brain drain is a severe loss due to the flow
of the competent and effective sector of the country particularly oil
producing states which are now in terrible need for trained and highly
skilled employees. Brain drain influences all level of education in the world
which suffers illiteracy estimation at 70 million people. The economy can
also be affected due to expenditure on study whether state funded or
privately. The migration even broadens the gap between the rich and poor
countries. Brain drain is advantageous to the beneficiary countries as well as
loss to countries of origin, because it deprives these countries from the
innovations of their subjects. Such countries as a result have become
culturally and technologically dependent on the West.
An answer to this would be to encourage entrepreneurs to produce
employment. The Government is supposed to give concessions in tax as well
as decrease the hassles concerned in setting up an industry. In this way we
could make India’s workforce one of its major assets.