brain drain

A presentation on Brain Drain

Group member :Apekchhya Gurung

Arpana Bhattarai Bikram Malla Narendra Shrestha

Pinky Adhikari Rohisha Maharjan Santosh Pokhrel SECTION: SMARTY

"We wouldn’t have gone abroad if there were opportunities and employment in the country.”

Seema Parajuli, a visa applicant

INTRODUCTION

What is brain drain ?

Smart people Leaving country

A brain drain or human capital flight is an emigration of trained and talented individuals ("human capital") to other nations for better income and better working condition

Brain Drain ? ( cont’d)

Not only Nepali manual laborer’s Nepali engineers also working in the Qatar

Similarly there is demand for Nepali nurses in aboard.

Some fact’s ?

1,200 Nepali’s leave the country every day to study and work in other countries

About 982,000 Nepali’s emigrated from the country in 2010. This constitutes 3.3 percent of Nepal’s total population.

Nepal was among the 10 low-income countries with the highest migration rates in 2010.

Methodology Of The Study

Primary Method Secondary Method

Objectives of the study

Find out the reason of brain drain

Find out the facts and figures about the brain drain

To find out the reasons for brain drain of ordinary people

Limitation of study

Based on the survey and some indirect source of information.

Based on survey of 15 respondents only.

Causes of Brain Drain in Nepal

for better future and better career.

Push factors VS pull factors

Push Factors of Brain Drain

Those factors due to which the person is seeking for a new country.

UnemploymentDesire for higher educationLow wage/salaryLack of freedomPoor working environmentLack of research and other facilities

Pull Factors of Brain Drain

Those factors which attracts the person to be in that country.

Employment opportunitiesModern educational systemHigher salary and incomeIntellectual freedomBetter working environmentBetter research facilities

Survey

Low scaled salary

Education

LifeStyle

family pressure

15%5 people

45%15 people

18%6 people

21%7 people

Consequences

It often result in missed opportunities reduce growth low employment

Scarcity of skilled and proficient manpower of a country

Lack of workforce diversityUnder developmentMissed opportunities for wealth creation for

their own countryAffects economy

Possible solution to brain drain

• Political stability• Higher level institution should be made• Awareness about serious consequences• Prohibit nepotism and favoritism• Adequate salary for every level of work

Summary

Brain drain hampers the development of country.

Brain drain is noble for the emigrants but not for the host country.

Drained brain contributes to the economy of migrated country which only influence the living standard of the people.

Recommendation

Amount of salary should be sufficient for all level of workers to spend a quality life.

Government should provide better opportunities for the highly qualified students.

Education should make practical not just theoretical.

Trend of giving job based on relations should be prohibited.

Examples of Brain drain

Dr. Luna Bhatta

SLC board Topper 2039

Highest Score difference in SLC history(27)

Cardiologist and assistant professor of Medicine at upstate medical university in Newyork

Dr. Sumnima singh

S.L.C Board topper –B.S.2056

Panjab University Topper in MBBS

First foreign writer to write book on urdu

Now in Portugal

Lujendra Ojha

Under graduated intern at department of planetary sciences

Now in United States in America

Spotted signs of possible salt water flows on Mars

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