Brain Drain

Talent is not the preserve of a single country. There are proficients personnel in every country namely scientists, experts in technology, men of literature or liberal arts, the artists, the painters and so on. These extraordinary talented men and women contribute to the progress and prosperity of the land of their birth as well as bring excellence in their field of expertise. It is very common that some of these brilliant persons are unable to obtain jobs to their satisfaction in their own land and for one reason or others are unable to adjust to their environment. In such circumstances , these persons migrate to other land in search of better job prospects or more material comforts. This exodus or emigration has come to be known in recent years as '' Brain Drain''.

The developing countries are the most affected one in the loss of their skilled and talented persons. The main reason behind this is that in developing countries there are less beneficial prospects in salaries and other facilities, It is possible that the amount of salary may not matter so much to these intellectuals as proper opportunities for enhancing their facilities or improving their talent to give them the feeling of highest fulfilment. Thus a scientist or a specialist in medicine or any other branch of knowledge may even reconcile to a lower pay and other hardships if there is a better recognition of his capabilities, a greater appreciation for his work, and especially better chances of research and improvement in his field of specialisation. Thus a better equipped laboratory or a library can help a large percentage of these national brains to abstain from leaving their motherland in spite of higher salaries in foreign countries.

The brains of a country require continuous advancement, replenishment and nourishment. Money, though a great tempter, however, can not keep superhuman beings couped up within a certain limit forever. They need an continuing unending scope to help their genius bloom to maturity; they need fulfilment of their God-gifted capabilities. It may be that material wealth is also a big allurement but it forms only an insignificant part of the fulfilment they need. When a scientist leaves his own country and choose for another, what motivates his action in that country he hopes to realise his dreams, give complete ropes to his ambition.
It is not uncommon that an ambitious person in order to earn wealth moves into a foreign country because his own country imposes too many restrictions, legally and politically, on the attainment of his hearts desires. Lack of resources and chances have thus prompted eligible people from developing countries to move into the free political atmosphere of USA, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore in search of better opprtunities. On the other hand , there are persons from the developed countries who have left their countries in favour of the developing ones. Certainly, instances are there where fortune- hunters from the developed countries have flocked into the developing ones in search of mineral wealth of natural resources, but their quest had ever been different from that of the intellectuals from the developing world. The glitter of the higher standard of living of the developed regions, and the intellectuals and the specialists have not been able to get rid of the craze for glamour. The result has been that majority of the brains from the developing countries are happy to acquire a standard of living and a set of consumer good like cars, refrigerators, television, etc., which even an ordinary citizen in these developed countries possess little realizing that what they get is far below the accomplishment that they are capable of or should be proud of.