Question

‘First gold-drain and now brain-drain’. Explain the statement.

Answer 1

• India has not rightly planned for managing its human resource.
• India failed to plan the type of labour and their quantity which it will need and the type of education and training that should be provided to match the need.
• As a result, due to lack of employment opportunities many of our doctors and engineers with high degree migrate to foreign countries because they are unable to get suitable work in India.
• The way there existed one-way movement of gold i.e. ‘drain of gold’ from India to England during the British rule, today we can witness one-way movement of knowledge i.e. ‘brain-drain’ from India to foreign countries.