The Great Indian Brain Drain: Trump and the Positives of a HB-1 Ban
Bengaluru is home to one of the largest computer technology centers in the world, and is considered to be India's "Silicon Valley". It's home to several large Indian tech companies, and is by far the largest hub in India for outsourcing.
India is currently going through a turmoils period of brain drain - a phenomenon where the talented and skilled move abroad in order to attain a better quality of life.
A large percentage of these immigrants are from the technology sector - often highly skilled in computers and STEM fields. They are usually the smartest and most useful people that India would love to keep from leaving.
These people were often educated and brought up using facilities subsidized by the government, yet leave at the first opportunity and don’t contribute back into the Indian economy.
The UNDP estimates that India loses $2 billion a year because of the emigration of computer experts to the U.S.Indian students going abroad for their higher studies costs India a foreign exchange outflow of $10 billion annually.
http://www.ijhssi.org/papers/v2%285%29/version-3/C251217.pdf
I hope that India use’s Trump’s success to encourage companies and Indians to move back to India, with jobs and talent, in order to encourage growth in the Indian economy.
The government should invest in public infrastructure and sanitation to encourage economic growth - including investment funds, and bursaries for education and research.
The current status of Trump's rhetoric against outsourcing jobs appears to be aimed at reducing HB-1 Visas. If a restriction or reduction does actually take place, it could ultimately see an exodus of jobs to India, particularly since the United States currently has around half-a-million unfilled jobs:
Consider that even prior to this new bill being conceived and presented, more than half a million high-skill computer science jobs are languishing unfilled in the US today
http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trumps-h1b-gift-india-kumar-mangala
We would also see more jobs being automated and processes narrowed to reduce bureaucracy, with said backroom infrastructure being created and off-shored to Indian tech companies.
This would create a situation where vacant jobs are reduced in the United States and new jobs are created in India.
Schneider Electric, a French global Industrial Automation company is planning to expand in India by increasing its portfolio of products, solutions and services. The company believes that automation will be a high growth sector in India.
http://www.maiervidorno.com/india-geared-up-for-innovative-automation-technology/
I think Indians everywhere should remind ourselves of the wonderful friendship the Indian community had with Trump and The Republicans. Trump himself commented on the situation:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/us-elections-2016/indian-americans-to-celebrate-trumps-inauguration-with-a-ball/articleshow/56390037.cms
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/31/indias-great-trump-hope/
