Migration of educated Indians is a huge loss to the country. A poor
country like India with a high rate of illiteracy cannot afford this loss. It
means a loss of trained technical or general manpower. It also means a
loss of their creative potential that a developing country like India can
ill-afford.
Migration of educated Indians also means financial loss to the
exchequer. Education is very costly. It is heavily subsidised by the
government. It is estimated that the government spends about Rs.1.5
lakhs on every medical graduate, Rs.1 lakh on every engineering
graduate and Rs.30,000 - Rs.50,000 on arts, commerce and science
graduates. All this investment is wasted owing to a high rate of 'braindrain'
from the country.
Migrating for monetary benefits or for other materialistic values is not a
very healthy trend. It reveals a sort of anti-national trend. India is
faced with immense socio-political and economic problems like
communalism, nepotism, drug addiction, trafficking, regionalism,
smuggling etc. This situation calls for the educated and intelligent
Indians to come forward and mobilise the energies of the masses into
concrete ideas and actions and make the Indian democracy a success..........................................