Economic Essay

Do you think this brain drain is making the rich countries richer and poor countries poorer?

Qualified people from poor countries move from poor to rich countries in search of a better position, profile, work and money.

Do you think this brain drain is making the rich countries richer and poor countries poorer? What can be done to stop this phenomenon?

“Brain Drain”, burning issue of this decade, is continuously letting our nation down, in the race for pride and power in the world. The hunger for money has taken us far beyond the ability to think wisely and lead a life of honour and prestige. Money has risen above any other thing or emotion in this world.

On a wider spectrum, for a country to be rich, its economy needs to grow, every citizen’s average lifestyle should rise. On this same ground, coming to the stand of our own nation, our brilliance is working for others, their economy is growing above us. What we are marching towards is, to the era of slavery. We Indians have forgotten the pain of slavery and the taste of democracy. We are failing to utilize our valuable resource of manpower. We don’t care to honour our qualified men with appropriate profile and designation. Unemployment to the literate youth is the biggest drawback in our country. Corruption, self-centred management, status consciousness; all these virtues have victimised an enthusiastic and energetic person with high qualification and sophisticated ideas for its implementation. Since he is getting a respectful welcome in terms of designation and salary, our youth chooses to serve other country for their development.

The term Brain Drain is not just restricted to the NRIs and those working abroad, but the Indian citizens who are working with their hands tied up to the MNCs are also equally ditching our country. Brain drain is definitely helping the developed, rich countries, getting richer. Our brains are getting appropriate profile, designation, power, prestige and above all the red hot salary by other rich nations. 

The rich developed nations have got enough money, but actually lack the manpower and brains to get their task completed to the utmost perfection on time. They are good paymasters and our brains are ready to sell their resource to get their family a life of luxury that their parents could hardly dream few years back. Indian men’s lifestyle is definitely rising up, as their mind-set has changed now. People want to portray their richness, hiding their original financial status, which is deeply buried in multiple debts in form of EMIs and loans. A middle class citizen in his eagerness to reach a high standard gets poorer and their financial status nearly equals a lower class. Undoubtedly, the rich industrialists, to get richer, are bowing down to the MNCs. Its we, who are paving way to the privatisation.

Who cares of working in a domestic BPO? Parents proudly announce their children to be working in MNCs. They get a lifestyle to project which is actually on loans and EMIs. Their children working for their own countrymen don’t fill their pockets enough. All people want today is a modernised luxurious life, no matter on EMIs or loans. Just as a foolish beetle gets attracted to the light and falls into the burning lamp wick, our youth proceeds with a watery tongue for the high paid jobs, but is unable to taste the food in his hand which is not his own yet.

If we carefully analyse the situation, we will find the root cause for this. We just need to dart it on the Bull’s Eye. We need to use our available resource of manpower. This definitely requires a determined management and governance. The educated youth should be welcomes with adequate job opportunities this requires our government and the industrial sector to change their mind-set to replace machinery power with manpower and reward them with appropriate salary.

Last but not the least, our people too, need to realize the pride of living in our own nation, rather than portraying their false prestige in being an NRI. This has to be inculcated right since childhood, teaching them the value of family and relationship and it’s weightage over the money. Money definitely has a place in life, but it’s not life itself. The original wealth is always the love and affection for the family and nation.

Let’s join hands to prevent ourselves becoming slaves to rich countries. Let the rich be rich, don’t fall down to the pit of poverty, forgetting your real self in the charm of money. Remember, All that glitters is not Gold.