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Should it be a matter of concern that for the last twenty years half of the Board Toppers of India have gone abroad ?<\/p>\n
On the one hand India has plenty of intelligent man power and loss of few individuals, however bright, is not a matter of serious concern . But when we consider our failure in innovation , designing compared to Israel,South Korea , Taiwan etc , it is obvious that India does not provide opportunity or ambience for real bright persons to excel and shine particularly in science and technology\u00a0 . Chinese threat should have made us undertake a serious introspection but it is no ones priority. So if our toppers can become a Nobel prize winner or a Microsoft’s Nadela or Google’s Sunder Pichchai outside , so be it ! Why grieve over their achievements or loss ?<\/p>\n
But it should be a matter of concern that our Babudom has completely demotivated scientists and technical personnel so much that no one sees a future in India . The dominance of ‘know nothing generalists’ in all top positions , uncertain and endless squabbles on fund allocation kills appetite of serious researchers . See how HAL is being deliberately killed by denial of orders and yet we want the best aircrafts made in India ! Cancellation of two extra increments of ISRO scientists , being availed for twenty years , just after Chandrayan mission is a typical example of bureaucratic vindictive\u00a0 high handedness . Similarly in spite of promise by Modi ji , bureaucracy made armed forces cry before PM intervened and let them have “One rank one Pay”. Self perpetuation and\u00a0 not the national development is the objective of our higher bureaucracy .<\/p>\n
Any one worried about our real relative regression in science and technology should worry about why no one is paying adequate attention to progress in Science and technology . Y Continuous Brain drain is a symptom not the disease but it should worry us . Young bright students are not taking science or technology as career.<\/p>\n
Read Indian Express’s\u00a0 article below .<\/p>\n
20 years on, where are the Board toppers? Over half are abroad, most in science and technology | Express Exclusive News,The Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n They are India\u2019s national school board toppers over 20 years. So it\u2019s no surprise that one\u2019s a\u00a0cancer<\/a>\u00a0physician in New York; another is a PhD fellow at MIT; one is a Harvard professor; one a hedge fund manager in Singapore \u2014 and as many as 11 are working for\u00a0Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n Each is a story of individual talent and effort, excellence and achievement, outliers all. But taken together, as an investigation by\u00a0The Indian Express<\/a>\u00a0reveals, the arcs of their different lives \u2014 and careers \u2014 tell significant stories of a generation coming of age after India opened up in the 1990s. Of how some aspirations endure, some don\u2019t; how some divides have crumbled, some remain as intractable as ever.<\/p>\n20 years on, where are the Board toppers? Over half are abroad, most in science and technology<\/h1>\n
Gender gap; students increasingly from outside metros; US most favoured destination, IIT popular route; minorities, SC\/STs invisible: 86 CBSE, ICSE, ISC toppers 1996-2015 tell stories of change \u2014 and point to challenges as the new National Education Policy rolls out.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Amid soaring cut-off marks based on Class 12 Board exams, as the government, in tune with its new National Education Policy, sets up a panel to explore a national test to rejig the college admission process, the findings from the investigation are pointers to the challenges ahead.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n