"There should be a ban on migration of educated Indians"
FOR
1. Migration of educated Indians is a huge loss to the country. A poor country like India with a high rate of illiteracy cannot afford this loss. It means a loss of trained technical or general manpower. It also means a loss of their creative potential that a developing country like India can ill-afford.
2. Migration of educated Indians also means financial loss to the exchequer. Education is very costly. It is heavily subsidised by the government. It is estimated that the government spends about Rs. 1.5 Lakhs on every medical graduate, Rs. 1 Lakh on every engineering graduate and Rs. 30,000 - Rs. 50,000 on arts, commerce and science graduates. All this investment is wasted owing to a high rate of 'brain-drain' from the country.
3. Migrating for monetary benefits or for other materialistic values is not a very healthy trend. It reveals a sort of anti-national trend. India is faced with immense socio-political and economic problems like communalism, nepotism, drug-addiction, trafficking, regionalism, smuggling, etc. This situation calls for the educated and intelligent Indians to come forward and mobilise the energies of the masses into concrete ideas and actions, and make the Indian democracy a success.
AGAINST
1. Banning educated Indians from migrating would be against democratic traditions and would mean denial of individual rights.
2. The state of economy in India cannot absorb or offer good working conditions to many educated specialists and technically trained personnel. The pay scales offered to many educated Indians are far below their expectations and needs. The working conditions prevalent in India are not of international standards. They have no alternative but to migrate.
3. It is evident from the recent trend that many Indians who have migrated have come back to India or are investing money in the Indian economy. This has proved to be highly beneficial to the country. Thus, the migrated Indians represent the country's assets and can be of use to the country in future.
4. The Indians abroad have proved to be very successful and have promoted India's name and culture abroad. They have played an important role in influencing the policies and decisions of foreign governments pertaining to India. We need such good samaritans and good-will ambassadorsin the developed world in a highly interdependent world, racing towards globalisation.
5. Indians like Vinod Khosla (a venture capitalist considered one of the most successful and influential personalities in Silicon Valley; one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and, currently, a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers) and Gururaj Deshpande (the Canadian billionaire of Indian origin; also the world's richest Indian) are the classic examples of Indians making big abroad, thereby, making a name for India too.