NEW DELHI: India lost 13 billion dollars to the developed countries through the brain drain, according to a study which also says that by 2000 ad more than half a million skilled Indians will be working abroad.
The number of Indians abroad will rise from 410, 00 in 1990 to. About 540,000 by the turn of the century, the study conducted by the New Delhi based Centre for planning research and action said.
Highly qualified skilled scientific and technical manpower make up of 20 percent of the Indian workforce abroad, the department of science and technology sponsored study said.
Thirty percent of this workforce is in the United States, 23 percent in West Asia and about II percent in Western Europe, according to the study.
Benefits lost by India to these countries until 1985 amounted to eight billion dollars to the United States 2.6 billion dollars to Canada and 2.2 billion dollars to the United Kingdom the study said.
Engineers make up some 32 percent of Indian professionals abroad, while 28 percent are doctors and five percent scientists, the study said.
The study has estimated that the total manpower emigration during 2002-2005 will be around 67,000 as against 61,000 between 1998-2001.
The study noted that the intensity of the brain drain has increased from five percent in 1960 to about 9.5 percent in 1985,
Article extracted from this publication >> June 1, 1990
