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NEW YORK: India no longer perceives students pursuing higher studies overseas, especially in the U.S., as brain drain but as a transnational community, the top Indian diplomat here believes.
This community is concerned about the welfare and progress of its country of origin, Indian Consul General in NEW YORK Pramathesh Rath said at a lecture in pace University.
Speaking on "Indo-U.S. Relations", Rath said a decade ago nine out of every 10 students left India for higher studies opted not to return while today only four or five opt to stay back.
"Half of the students go back because opportunities have grown. The concept has changed left India now act as transnational communities, going back and forth—working in business has bring to India experience, finance technology. So the issue of brain drain is not true."
Rath said while geopolitical issues and India"s economic reforms program contributed, the positive change in Indo-U.S. relations over the past two decades, the contribution of India origin in America was no less.
He said people of Indian origin occupied significant positions in mainstream American dominating several key sectors such as healthcare and IT, which, in turn, was helping the relations between India and the U.S..
In the U.S., he said five percent of physicians were of Indian origin, 35 percent of them here were owned by Indians, 65 percent of the graduates of the Indian Institutes of technology (IITs) pursued higher education in American universities and Indians comprised 12.5 percent of foreign students in graduate and undergraduate courses.
On the issue of dual citizenship, Rath said while the government had accepted dual identities, it had to be ratified by Parliament before implementation.
"This is a bilateral thing. The U.S. ambassador in Indian says "Yes, the U.S. has problems". But maybe some of the other countries may say no. This is what every country become clearer by the end of the year," Rath said. What is the text mainly about（）

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