Who will build the nation ?

The chief (this person incidently has made it to the list of eminent Maharashtrian personalilites, discussed in a previous post) of one of our leading engineering companies has remarked that most intelligent and educated youngsters leave the country or join software companies. This leaves the firms that actually work towards nation building, with second hand persons and/or incapable persons. Now, its always upto the candidate to pursue his or her choice of career, but then the thought of the brain drain comes to mind. Our country set up the IIT system to cater to our needs. What it has ended up creating is a body-shop for foriegn firms. Our country does the hard work of screening the best and educating them with the best technology and then turns them over to outsiders, leaving companies like these (nation builders) with nothing. Those who do not go abroad join software firms and these firms make a buck from their skills and later these kinds too flee from the country. All awards and pats of the industry and government go to these software firms (who dont really participate in nation building but just earn foriegn exchange - but at what cost ? ). At the cost of the nation. And this is dangerous.

Something needs to be done. The IIT system needs to be accountable for the nation. It uses the best iron ore available in the country and produces the best steel (nothing surprising or significant). Then it sells(?), no rather it gifts this steel abroad. The IIT system is funded by the ordinary Indian taxpayers money and hence the ordinary Indian needs some return on this. What it actually does is nothing different from prostitution. If the IIT system could transform an ordinary candidate into a world class product, then that was something.