As per a recent report, only 5.2 per cent of Indians who go to the U.S. to earn a doctorate degree return home. According to the study ‘International Mobility and Employment Characteristics among Recent Recipients of U.S. Doctorates’ by the U.S. National Science Foundation around 5,000 Indians join U.S. universities every year for doctoral studies. The survey looked at students who graduated with PhDs between 2001 and 2007, indicating the brain drain in research that was thought to have reduced with India’s recent economic growth. There could be many reasons for this brain drain, instead of worrying about losing top minds to developed nations; India should devise options for these people to sustain in their soil. Perhaps this is possible only when we become a corruption-free country.
Mohd Ziyaullah Khan
Nagpur