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From: sridhar@tekecs.UUCP (S. Sridhar)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Brain Drain
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 12:56:48 EST
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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 ?


Some 2-3 yrs ago, there was strong rumors that GRE is also in the banning
phase. But apparently they were just that, rumors. I hear that notwithstanding
the ECFMG ban, some well-heeled medicos  leg it to Manila/Lahore etc
to take the exam. Well ?
-- 
S. Sridhar sridhar%spy@tektronix.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa