Brain Rain After Drain.
- Shweta Sarkar
- Apr 15, 2020
- 3 min read

The Coronavirus pandemic has tanked the global economy with unprecedented speed. Markets plunged, business halted to screeching and millions out of job are some acute outcomes this pandemic has brought to the world economy. The countries can not overlook the record-shattering unemployment following the lockdown, the number of unemployed will keep on doubling in coming future and for India, the concern is even severe because the country is going to face a large inrush of expatriates, post-pandemic. During such scarcities the countries tighten up their belts and launch the Localization Drive, they start hiring their citizen and re-establishing them, undoubtedly they can not claim "Simon Go Back!" thing, hence they will choose the track of- no fresh recruitments of foreigners, lowered salaries, raised taxes, stalled payments and block further incoming of migrants which results into expatriates returning to their homes.

The tussle between Indian development and the brain drain has always been a point to ponder for India where talented doctors, IT professionals, educationist, economist and many more have already chosen and regularly choose to work beyond borders with a will to never return, threatening the Indian economic prospects and competitiveness but on the current terms, quicksilver is approaching where India is on the edge to survive the torrent in which the homeless and jobless migrants are coming back. India, being the country of the largest international migrants with approx 17.5 million strong diaspora across the world will suffer the blow the highest. Unlike many other countries where the mass exodus is the result of terrorism in their country, Indian exodus is the outcome of lack of opportunities or the search of the better ones, therefore, the post-pandemic deluge of unemployed Indians from countries all over the world is appearing as a serious predicament to the country.

Being Indian migrants the highest in the Gulf and the Middle East the panic among nationals living there is also heavily mounted because the intertwined bond of oil and Indian expatriates between the Gulf, the Middle East and India is going to face a maelstrom which will be added with the post-pandemic medical calamities the countries have to deal with.Second, comes the USA naming the second country where the highest Indian migrants are absorbed. Keeping all the business commitments between the two countries aside, the problem of Indian migrants becoming jobless in the USA is resuscitating as it had been in the recession of 2007, turning face and feet of the expatriates towards India.
In India, the unemployment has remained unresolved as yet despite many remedies being taken and during the lockdown, unemployment has taken a rise to be 7.78% in March from 7.16% in February and this issue will become radical due to the return of migrants. In such situations, India is expected to generate employment both under the skilled and unskilled sectors,

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