Brain Drain in India

Brain drain is defined as the immigration of individuals with technical skills or knowledge, normally due to conflict, lack of opportunity, political instability or health risks. Brain drain is common among developing nations. We have been experiencing this problem ever since we won our freedom. We set up our institutes of higher education with high hopes. It is unfortunate that thousands of our doctors and engineers are leaving country every year.



The main reason for this brain drain is scarcity in employment opportunities. We have a large man power waiting for respectable jobs. Several engineering graduates are waiting for employment. Some are not satisfied with their jobs, they feel they are under employed, so they migrate to countries wherever they find better opportunities.


The government has every reason to feel concerned about this problem because the number of scientific and technical personnel leaving India has increased in recent years. Measures taken by government have not yielded results. Still it is difficult to find suitable jobs for those who would like to return. Whenever some of them return they have a complaint of lack of job satisfaction due to absence of innovative research.


Indian workers, scientists, doctors and engineers have already made their mark in several countries. In America alone, more than 25% of the doctors, engineers and technical personnel are from India. Indians working in fields, factories, hospitals are known for their sense of duty and dedication. They form the back bone of the whole economic system in that country.


What we require is a proper planning of our requirements. Awareness should be brought among those intending to go abroad that it is their moral and sacred duty toward their country to serve their motherland first and foremost. The government must think in terms of establishing a compulsory national service for a limited period of time for the science, engineering and medicine graduates.


The basic facilities suitable for research and education should be provided in the institutions so that our technical graduates do not feel uncomfortable in their own setup. Let every graduate realise that he has a duty towards his country that educated him and that his leaving the country is nothing less than a betrayal.

By --- Aakansha Mishra

WORLD CANCER DAY : 4 FEB

We are celebrating the world cancer week from 29 Jan to 4 Feb. A SINGULAR INITIATIVE, WORLD UNITE FOR FIGHT AGAINST CANCER. WHO SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST CANCER. With the help of Cancer week we PROMOTE WAYS TO EASE THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF CANCER and RAISE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR CANCER PATIENTS.

CANCER - A GENERIC TERM

• A LARGE GROUP OF DISEASES THAT CAN AFFECT ANY PART OF THE BODY.

• OTHER TERMS USED - MALIGNANT TUMOURS AND NEOPLASMS.

• DEFINING FEATURE - RAPID CREATION OF ABNORMAL CELLS - GROW BEYOND USUAL BOUNDARIES - INVADE ADJOINING PARTS OF THE BODY - SPREAD TO OTHER ORGANS.

• PROCESS REFERRED AS – METASTASIS - MAJOR CAUSE OF DEATH FROM CANCER.

Cancer KILLS MORE PEOPLE GLOBALLY THAN AIDS, MALARIA AND TB COMBINED. ONE OF THE MOST COMMON DISEASES IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD. LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH WORLDWIDE - 7.6 MILLION DEATHS AROUND 13% OF ALL DEATHS IN 2008. 1 IN 4 DEATHS ARE DUE TO CANCER. 1 IN 17 DEATHS ARE DUE TO LUNG CANCER.OVER 100 DIFFERENT FORMS OF CANCER. LUNG CANCER IS THE MOST COMMON CANCER IN MEN. BREAST CANCER IS THE MOST COMMON CANCER IN WOMEN.

PREVENTIVE AND CURABLE CANCERS KILLING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE EACH YEAR.

‘TOGETHER IT IS POSSIBLE’

EVERY PERSON, ORGANISATION, GOVERNMENT INDIVIDUALLY DOING THEIR PART - WORLD WILL REDUCE PREMATURE DEATHS FROM CANCER AND OTHER NCDS BY 25% BY 2025.

HOPE FOR THE CANCER FREE WORLD

HIV /AIDS

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is a disease of human immune system caused by HIV(Human Immunodeficiency Virus). Disease do not affect people with working immune syatem. HIV destroys a type of defense cell in the body called CD4 helper lymphocyte.

HIV is transmitted in many ways to the people -

1. Sex

2. Blood transfusion

3. Infected Mucous membane or blood streem

4. Contaminated needles

5. Mother to baby during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding

AIDS was first recognised by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1981. Treatment for AIDS can slow the cause of the disease . There is no known cure or HIV vaccine available for the AIDS.

As a responsible citizen people should come forward and work for the society in spreading the awareness. There are many ways to help the society. One can associate with our NGO in HIV/AIDS awareness programme. Awareness of Safe Sex, Needle Exchage programme in attempt to slow the spread of virus.

As we have conducted in past a painting competition, slogan writting competition, a play by school student and small speech on HIV/AIDS to spread the awareness on WORLD AIDS DAY.

World Health Day on 7th April.

Sun Shine – A Ray of Hope, a non-governmental organization born on 05 April 2011, undertook its maiden assignment after two days of birth on 07 April 2011, on the occasion of World Health Day celebrated to mark the foundation of WHO.


Most of us live longer and healthier, partly because of powerful and effective medicines – known as anti-microbials, available to treat infectious diseases. Unfortunately, the use and misuse of anti-microbials in human medicine and animal husbandry in the last almost seven decades have increased the micro organisms resistance to these medicines, causing deaths, greater suffering, disability and higher health-care costs. The phenomenon if unchecked, many infectious diseases will become uncontrollable and could derail progress made towards reaching the health related United Nations Millennium Development Goals for 2015. Furthermore, the growth of global trade and travel allows resistant organisms to spread worldwide within hours. Anti-microbial resistance is not a new problem but one that is becoming more dangerous. Many countries are taking action, but urgent and consolidated efforts are needed to avoid regressing to the pre-antibiotic era.


With this as a backdrop, World Health Day was selected as the maiden project to issue a call to combat antimicrobial resistance by launch of two awareness rallies by youths. These two rallies comprising of 73 girls from colleges / universities and 55 NCC cadets marched between Shivaji Nagar (Agriculture University) and FC Road (Fergusson College) in Pune with banners to propagate the World Health Day 2011 slogan of WHO “Combat Drug Resistance - No Action Today, No Cure Tomorrow”.