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From: mvramakrishn@watdaisy.UUCP (Rama)
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Subject: Re: Brain Drain
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 15:25:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 15:25:51 1986
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> 	Several years ago every other medical student found it fit to leg it
> to the US after completing MBBS. This came to an end as soon as the concerned
> organization stopped conducting the ECFMG ( I think that's the name ) exam in 
> India . Ofcourse the tide of Indian Doctors moving to the US was also checked
> by the fact that very few were granted visas.
> 	This makes me believe that a practical way to check the migration 
> of IIT graduates to this country is to ban the administration of GRE in 
> India .
> 	Comments ?

	My summary of this discussion is that,
	We are (those here from india) all brainy guys!
	We are smart (we have already come to greener pastures).
	We are patriotic (we want other brainy guys to stay back to serve
			  the country - our mother land?)
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	It should be noted that many people from IIT/IISc who go join
	industries move to US after a few years.
	(This is atleast true from my batch of students.
	 I came here after working for 5 years in indian industry.
	 I know several others who came between 1 and 5 years after
	 leaving IISc)
	Money is certainly one of the reason;
	But many people have left India for other reasons(I don't want
	to go into all the different reasons).
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	The budget of IISc was about $2 million per year (2 crore rupees).
	The money repatriated from indians abroad is about $1 billion
	(approximate) - precious Foreign Exchange to buy high tech machinery
	etc, badly needed by indian industry.
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	If an indian spends $20,000 in India (earned outside India), probably
	he is paying back the money govt spent educating him.
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	I recall one of the participant in a debate (in IISc) said
	"The problem is not of brain drain but of DRAINED BRAINS"
	(She was an arts student; the topic of debate was some thing
	like "The problem of scientific brain drain").
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	Many of the technological advances of the west do reach poorer
	countries like India; One may look at the brain drain as the
	contribution of the poorer countries to the global technological 
	advancement (benifiting the whole of mankind).
	the BEST brains should be at the BEST places for advancing science
	and technology. (I am not saying which is the BEST place!)
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	Most of the above are facts/my observations

	The solutions should be aimed at the root cause of the problem.
	If GRE is banned, people may find it difficult to go to USA.
	But, how about universities in countries like Canada, UK, Australia, ...
	which do not require GRE.
	(I have heard of many people going to Singapore etc to write ECFMG)
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Ramakrishna M.V., Univ. of Waterloo, Ont, Canada.
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