Moving On from ‘Brain Drain’, Colleges Are Now Leveraging the Success of The Indian Diaspora

We have been confronting this brain drain issue since last decade. It’s amusing how things have taken a different turn, colleges who would criticize their student for applying to universities abroad are now praising the same student and leveraging their success to boost their own quality of education. According our opinion, it’s about opportunity. Brain drain’ was a major rallying cry in the 1970s and 80s it appeared as if India and many other countries were investing in training highly skilled professionals so that the USA could benefit from their talent which turned out to be a complete lie.

There were two aspects of the brain drain, linked with patriotism and public finances. The move abroad was seen by the elite, who didn’t move as an abdication of responsibility, as a step towards undertaking the ‘big reforms’ that India required and young Gandhi had talked about.

For those who did move, the prospect of working in the best laboratories of the world and living in large homes, or enjoying a vastly improved standard of living overturned any patriotic sentiment that they may have harboured. This turn of events occurred due to the tremendous success of highly skilled Indian emigrants and also because their continued links with India through economic and social remittances limited the negative fallouts of the brain drain. Economic remittances from these emigrants filled the foreign exchange offers and grew to comprise an amount representing nearly 2 per cent of India’s GDP. The rapid growth of India’s IT and health sector enterprises was facilitated by close contacts with the latest developments occurring in the rich world via the high-skilled Indian diaspora.

In fact, it turns out those people who went there were more open to help their country with a greater impact and made name of India for being a country of talented gems thus increasing our values in world economy. So be proud for choosing education abroad because you will be becoming a global workforce. For study abroad details and coaching visit http://gkworks.in/ .