India trying to control Brain Drain
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siliconindia | Monday, 22 November 2010, 16:15 IST

Bangalore/Mumbai: Faculty openings in western countries have given rise to hopes of filling in the positions by people of top Indian institutions wherein the Indian embassies have welcomed the era of young PhD fellows from the dream of a classroom called as India. Mediocre institutions lag behind in the race, same with the second bests as well wherein the huge loss of knowledge transfer takes place as the larger chunk of students study there. A good teacher and a proper guidance is what all the students require, whichever institution they study in adds to the value later.
Video conferencing facilities have been provided so that the heads of top Indian Institutes can connect with people of Indian origin and overseas citizens of India who are interested in coming back to India and teaching. A success in persuading the PhD graduates to return back to their home country, has given India some hopes where it could just not empty out the ivy-league institutes of their noble laureates.
Come back to where you belong, is the message carried by the bright advertisements designed by IITs which have also been sent to the Indian embassies in the USA, UK,Canada, Italy, Japan and Austria.
"There is currently an overflow of applicants wanting to teach in our institutes, as employment opportunities for PhD fellows in the US and Europe are not very bright," said IIT-Delhi director Surendra Prasad. Engineering colleges and other tech schools have actually received a number of applications. On one hand where none of the eight new IITs set up in 2008 and 2009 have filled in their required faculty posts, on the other hand, IIT Delhi has taken the initiative of conducting interviews with the candidates on skype and has actually succeeded in bringing a few bright Indians back home.