---------- Forwarded message --------- From: 'N Sekar' via iyer123 <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 1:10 PM Subject: [iyer123] Re: Snippets - Sitendrakumar - Emigration to foreign countries
Thanks for this interesting forward Sri. Chittanandam. Problem is in spite of the promise that Bharat holds, there are so many reasons why people emigrate: 1. Although we have moved away from the socialist, " License and Quota Raj" , still we have not given it up altogether. The Chairman of Team Lease mentioned a couple of years ago that there are not less than a thousand (more in fact) permits required before one can start a company - and thousands more to comply with, on an annual basis. He said more than a thousand (central, state, local) rules and forms need to be complied with on an annual basis and he was not contradicted in the interview. He added it is impossible to fully comply with all the Rules and Regulations. Politicians and Bureaucrats have a vested interest to keep these archaic live as it helps them to retain their powers so people can continue to say " yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir". There are a few honourable exceptions though. We are still a bureaucratic Nation in spite of the many reforms since 2014. Anand Mahindra said while corruption at the Central level is non existent since 2014, the same cannot be said about the states. *No honest person can survive and thrive in this environment*. Just see the shoddy work of the roads, bridges etc. where contracts are awarded for a consideration and not on merits. To cut a long, long, sob, sad story short: *I think the Tamizh film Indian said it beautifully when it said:* *In all other countries one has to give a bribe to get what one is NOT entitled to* *But in India* *We have to give bribes even to get our Rights.* This reason alone is enough to justify migration although there are a thousand other reasons like Reservations (Affirmative Action, though fully justified) going beyond all limits, vote bank politics etc. One telling example is how many of the IAS and IFS cadre's children (if they are not in the same cadre here) are in U S and Europe - the framers of the rules themselves know how bad the system is and that's s why they send their children abroad. The list is endless. Right question to ask is how we shine in spite of this system -may be because of the innate nature of the Indians, jugaad or whatever else you choose to call it. N Sekar On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 02:28:06 AM GMT+4, Chittanandam V R < [email protected]> wrote: *Received from Shri Sitendra Kumar* * The pull of greener pastures* *Vijay Sabharwal* *There is big talk of India’s high-growth trajectory. The world is apparently acknowledging our continuing rise in the comity of nations, epitomised recently by the nation’s G20 presidency. So, it is with a sense of irony that I look at the full-page advertisements in newspapers showcasing services for providing a ‘one-way ticket’ to foreign shores. These advertisements show smiling young individuals looking excited about their overseas prospects.* *These two narratives are in contradiction. If India is witnessing such rapid economic growth, why are our youth fleeing in droves? In my native village Bagthala (Kurukshetra), where my family has owned farmlands for generations, a trickle has turned into a torrent of youngsters headed off to Europe, Canada, Australia, etc. Over 200 youths from the village alone have emigrated, never to return, and their family bungalows here are either locked up or being used by servants-turned-caretakers.* *Kurukshetra city itself — famous as the land of the Mahabharata, and now as an agrarian centre — has morphed into a leading hub of student emigration. In local parlance, the business of arranging emigration papers is called ‘kabootarbaazi’, offering an insight into the practices that are often not above board.* *Paid advertisements and news articles on ‘endless’ opportunities presented by emigration abound in newspapers. Sometimes, local politicians are featured congratulating students and their parents on having secured travel visas for destinations abroad — never mind the course of study or what professional opportunities are in store. The most in-demand test for many of these students no longer pertains to engineering or medicine, as was the case in ‘old India’; it is now IELTS, the English language proficiency exam, followed by any course that can guarantee them a pathway out of the country.* *It is not that the interest of students (and parents) in overseas career opportunities is a recent phenomenon. Darshan Singh of the Lubana community was the first to go to Germany from Bagthala in 1965. He was followed by so many eager youths that an entire locality in the village is now known as ‘Germany da dera’ (German camp).* *However, the scale of this exodus across both rural and urban communities in the country today is unparalleled. If India is the country of growth and opportunities, why are our youth lining up to head for the low-growth and high-inflation countries? What explains this paradox — are our youth misinformed or are all these dazzling economic indicators flattering to deceive?* *- Vijay Sabharwal* ************************************** *Chittanandam* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iyer123" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/1272876651.3689344.1695460223061%40mail.yahoo.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/1272876651.3689344.1695460223061%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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