Brain drain will lead to brain gain: Abdul Kalam-Oct 15, 2011

Brain drain will lead to brain gain: Abdul Kalam

TNN | Oct 15, 2011, 06.27AM IST



COIMBATORE: If public money is stashed abroad then it has to be brought back to the country as it rightfully belongs here, said former President APJ Abdul Kalam, while interacting with students of PPG Group of Institutions at their college campus in Saravanampatty here on Friday.

"I don't know how much money is there. If our money is there it must return," said Kalam, while delivering a lecture, Igniting Young Minds, at the PPG Institute campus.

The former president and youth icon pointed out that brain drain will lead to brain gain as Indians employed abroad create wealth that will eventually benefit our country indirectly. "The 25 million Indians abroad going for wealth creation who have a strong connection to India is a gain for us. In a globalised market, people will come and go. Many foreigners will come here too," Kalam said.

During the talk, he said engineering departments must work in cooperation. "We need an inter-disciplinary approach and various branches of technology must cooperate to bring the best design and products. Some time before, with a medical expert we developed a cardiac stead. We need more collaborations of that sort," said Kalam.