Do IITians help India.......

I was moved by our President’s speech, in which he says that the IITians are not contributing for the upcoming of our nation. This was the same thought which I was having in my mind from a long time, and I started thinking about it more after seeing the movie swades… and today my thought has been triggered again by Dr.Kalam’s speech at the IIT alumni meeting. Yeah it’s true that the vision of Nehru in establishing IITs across the nation was for the development of the nation with intelligent youth from IITs. A lot of money has been invested by the government of India for the development of the institutions, so why do the graduates work abroad rather than working for the nation. Even though President Kalam is not a graduate of IIT he has worked for the development of the nation with his contribution to space and research program of India, but how many people do you think get such an opportunity to show their intelligence? If a graduate from an esteemed institute of the nation is given a job to look after a research lab rather than letting him contribute something for the research, do you think that he is not contributing to the country?
Everybody today speaks about the prosperous stories of IITians who have established themselves in the silicon valley of US, but does anyone talk about the graduates of the same institute who have many such successful stories in India. I respect our President, but why doesn’t Dr. Kalam say the same thing to big companies and the government to provide opportunities to the graduates of such institutes, so that they can stay in the country. I read somewhere an IIT graduate saying that the institute has not changed even a bit right from the time he graduated till the time his daughter came to study at the same institute, changed means in the sense of development. Many say IIT graduates are running after money, but why doesn’t any body see it the other way, the kind of job they are being offered in India and abroad, the kind of facilities being provided in India and abroad for research, the kind of entrepreneur exposure they get. Everybody speak about 25000 of IIT graduates are in US, when there are around 1.28 lac graduates from IITs, why someone doesn’t talk about the remaining 1lac graduates? There has been many students not only from IIT but from IIMs who have rejected offers of a lifetime from international companies to stay back in the country and develop their own business, but how many people do you think can afford their own business? Why someone doesn’t talk about all those NRIs who are returning to India, to establish themselves, after staying abroad for more than a decade? But how much is the government and bureaucrats providing them with facilities and opportunities.
Very few people dream of staying in a foreign land, away from their motherland and away from their roots, it all depends on family situations, opportunities, exposure and facilities. May be someday everyone would come back to India as sharukh in swades...May be the government should take some firm steps for providing opportunities for these graduates.