If somebody asks about global Indian takeover is just a mith, Except few success stories like Pepsi's Indra Nooyi, Citibank's Vikram Pandit and steel world's Lakshmi Mittal, then there are pack of great example to give it a solid background backup blast.
The extent to which these facts have made an impact over the giant economy of US was being led to a concerned in RajyaSabha- as many as 12% scientists, 38% doctors in the US are Indians, and in NASA, 36% or almost 4 out of 10 scientists are Indians.
If thats not enough to make u fell of Indian brain power 34% employees at Microsoft, 28% at IBM, 17% at Intel and 13% at Xerox are Indians will make u to think.
And for the house of Elders some more fact about the nation is that 20% of gold in the world is used by Indians and 9 out of 10 diamonds used in the world are made or polished in India.
On Monday by D Purandeshwari, minister of state for HRD, displayed of the success stories to the Rajya sabha in defence the country's brain power in the state of researches. While he added although a lot needed to be done to encourage research, it was wrong to run down the country's higher education system since most Indians who excelled abroad were products of Indian institutions. Along with it there was no slackness in research and the number of PhD holders had gone up from 17,898 two years back to 18,730 last year.
It was also being argued about all the listed initiatives taken to encourage research, especially in science. Apart from creating 1,000 positions of research scientists at various levels. Also, all postgraduate programmes pertaining to science and technology would have an in-built component of research. The University Grants Commission is also identifying performing universities so that they can be given 50 fellowships to carry out research in basic sciences.
