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Capt.Popeye Pakistani scientists want to return but they don't get support from govt. They are as patriotic and want to help their nation just like our people do.
I was watching a show where few Pakistani businessmen have invested in their country. But they said that govt. don't provide the electricity. Even Zardari said that produce your own electricity.
Pervez Hoodbhoy of Pakistan is PhD from MIT but tell me how he feels when many people like AQ Khan supported that water car Engineer. This make them frustrated.
Its all about support. My prof. did his PhD from IIT K, worked in NASA but when he returned, he was given job in IIT where he taught brilliant students and published hell lot of papers. He became HoD of Mathematics there. His students also earned good position. Many of them are HoD or senior Faculty in IIT, NIT etc. He is over 70 years and still getting 12 lakhs per annum while living in his home town with his son and his family.
So providing income source to such researchers help us in keeping them in India. His one son has settled in US and hardly comes to India. Reason is that India lacks few research infrastructure for him to do his work with good salary.
Similarly, IISc provides comparatively better resources for R&D. TIFR is another such institute.
Then comes DRDO labs all over India. We have ISRO. Met a ex DRDO scientist who is in Board of Director of Private Institute in Kanpur with a decent salary..
CSIR, DST, etc. provide financial support even for presenting papers in International Conferences.
There is a new scheme launched, something like Prime Minister PhD scholarship. They are paying 50,000 Rps per month to those who secure it.
Now tell me, in India where does there is so much money given for PhD students. I am not talking about money from collaborative work but by home university.
This is the support we need. Providing a attractive job with comforts and competitive salary to lure back our brains.
China has been doing it and those students who earned their PhD from US and other best univ. are offered good jobs.
India has started just recently.
Send your students to best Universities, let West teach them advance research in their labs and then bring them to establish similar research institutes.
India has also started a institute for Space Engineering.
Opening new IITs is a great step but India shouldn't compromise on entry level qualifications of students and increase funding we provide.
With so many Foreign companies coming, they want to higher top notch engineers and scientists and they will like to hire Indian people as it costs low and since they are local, they adjust easily as they can go home more often.
My friends work in Noida in Samsung but they come home on weekends. Hyundai is already decreasing foreign employees and replacing with Indian people.