'Brain Gain' to check 'Brain Drain'
New Delhi | Tuesday, Jul 21 2009 IST
 

The brain drain from the country will be checked by a 'Brain Gain' policy, the Government told the Rajya Sabha today.

The steps mooted under the policy would attract talent from all over the world into the country's 14 national universities aiming for world class standards as well as for Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management and National Institutes of Technology, Minister of State for Human Resource Development D Purundeswari told the House in a written reply.

She was asked whether the cream of post graduates in specialised courses was being lured by advanced countries.

Ms Purundeswari said no record of the number of engineers and technocrats who go abroad for higher studies or employment was maintained.

''In the present scenario of globalisation and liberalisation, the movement of technical personnel across national boundaries is inevitable,'' she said.

But, the Minister said the government was going to take a number of steps under a 'Brain Gain' policy to retain the country's talent and attract it from all over the world.

Replying to a related question, the Minister said the 14 world class unuiversities would be set in Amritsar (Punjab), Greater Noida (UP), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Patna (Bihar), Guwahati (Assam), Kolkata (West Bengal), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Kochi (Kerala), Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), Mysore (Karnataka), Pune (Maharashtra), Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and Bhubaneshwar (Orissa).

''These universities would act as exemplars for other universities, including central universties, in setting standards of teaching and research comparable to those prevailing in the best of universities in the world,'' Ms Purundeswari said.

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