October 20,2024 finally made the Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar speak his ideas, letting out his annoyance about large numbers of students trooping out of India to study. He called it “forex drain and brain drain” which is not good for the economy or education sector.
Giving a speech at an event in Sikar, Rajasthan which was hosted by a private college, Dhankhar went on to emphasize that there is a growing disease of students wanting to travel abroad for studies and this is not good – calling studying abroad student’s craze a “new disease among children” himself does not sound good.
Also, as Sangh Parivar on most occasions doesn’t, in a finger-wagging way, he stated many students and their parents do not check the quality of the institutional or the country they are sending their kids to and are willing to send them abroad.
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This, he claimed, is bringing a big loss to the country. He explained that students going abroad for education is not only substantiated by how bad these students end up losing exchange values when they go abroad. “Forecasts suggest that 1.3 million Indian students will have gone and studied abroad on 2024 with a net loss of around 6 billion US dollars,” he said.
The Vice President pointed out that this huge expenditure would be better spent towards enhancing the Indian educational institutions as well. “If USD 6 billion replicated in our educational infrastructure, India would have a new benchmark when it comes to richness and inclusiveness of education,” said Dhankhar while appeal of foreign education to all educational institutions and students alike.
In particular, Dhankhar spoke on the necessity of making them aware of the opportunities that lie unaided in India. Most of them seem to focus on only a limited number of career paths for some reason; most students, however, enter only a few jobs, yet the array of career alternatives is always developing. “The youngsters usually chase 8 to 10 types of jobs, if they do at all, but it is interesting to note that the billions of opportunities are increasing day by day. Most our youth, sadly, do not get a full exposure of the range of employability India has,” he added.
In his speech, however, he asked Indian institutions and industries to make joint efforts in familiarizing the growing opportunities within the country. He wanted the governments and combined effort on part of the students be made for them to stay in India and work, build the nation and limit the excessive emigration of talent and resources. According to Dhankhar, building better infrastructure and promoting domestic opportunities makes it possible for India to not just hold on to its talent but also to become a world education hub. He stresses the importance of focusing on several fronts including the improvement of the educational system, recruitment of quality teachers, and creation of research and development opportunities.