Brain drain and reverse brain drain: challenges and opportunities in context of India

According to Oxford Advanced Learner's dictionary Brain Drain is “the movement of highly skilled and qualified people to a country where they can work in better conditions and earn more money”. Brain-drain can also be named as “human capital flight” because it resembles the case of capital flight, in which mass migration of financial capital is involved. India is becoming a major supplier of human capital for the advanced economies. India is sending large numbers of these specialists compared to other important origin countries. Brain drain is the current socio-economic problem of our country. This paper mainly focuses on as India is an emerging opportunity and how this opportunity is utilized for changing brain drain to reverse brain drain so that we use our brain in the growth and development of our country.