Brain Drain From Hubli

We always hear brain drain from India to US and to other foreign countries. But the fact is that brain drain happens from micro scales. People move from villages to town, town to cities and to metros. It’s all basically in search of better job and living. I am not much concerned about migration of people from other cities and towns. But the brain drain from my own city makes me to think for a while.

Consider my own engineering college as example, it all starts from the final year. Many students get placed in various different campus visiting companies. This is the time when a student is virtually been migrated to the city where the company is based. And for the guys who cannot make it to the campus placement, any of the metros is the obvious choice of migration. During this time we are all helpless, but to accept the fact that we have to move to these cities for a better career. And everyone is so excited about new job and career that, he doesn't think a while to accept a new city as his new home.

Following are few phases of migration and cases, which ponders me to think,

• After graduation we move to any of the metro due to campus placement or in search of job. At this stage its only the student who makes the move leaving their parents behind in their respective home town. They opt to stay in a shared house/apartment with friends. In the initial stages the frequency of visiting Hubli during every month is quite high. Slowly because of work pressure and hectic life this frequency comes down.
• Later it happens that the parents who have only one son/daughter starts thinking that my son is working in Bangalore and we are staying in Hubli, which doesn't make much sense. So they decide upon moving to Bangalore finally. Few families tend to sell their independent house in Hubli or give it for rent to opt for an apartment life in Bangalore
• But the parents who have daughter have a different problem. For them the day their daughter leaves Hubli after graduation to join new company is like a partial goodbye to her in-laws home. Because the girl will get married in another year or so while being at job in Bangalore. So its straight way to sasural (in-law’s house) for her without staying for a considerable amount of time in Hubli with her parents after engineering.
• But in some case parents don’t like to leave Hubli, no matter what, they stay in Hubli even if their son/daughter is working in another city and these are such families which don't migrate.

Most of these graduates what to go back to their home town, but it rarely happens. Only few with exceptional cases will stay back, like Self Employment family business, Job in the local company. Thus year on year all these young graduates leave the town to make a better career in metros.  Slowly all the graduates will start losing the touch with their hometown and one day the attachment ends and there is no looking back in life.

Hopefully in future few big MNC’s and other tech startup companies establishes in Hubli, along with malls, multiplexes, etc etc.. may be this brain-drain might reverse.

So the big question is, will we ever go back?