Nanotechnology in India is just coming up in research and technology field. But still our papa and grandpa who everyday reads newspapers and watches news on TV hardly knows about it. So it does not help a guy who wants to go in this field, with his father in IT industry and grandfather retired from a Government tech firm. He does not receive motivation or help in order to take this "risky" step. Instead he is being lured into the ever popular IT industry job for both money and career security.
These 2 latter reasons are creating hurdles in India for nanotechnology to bring significant changes or employment to the society. The major problem of nanotechnology in India is that it has negligible amount of placements for now quite a handsome amount of passing out nanotech graduates. They either have to join some IT giant (because nobody else bothers to give them employment except some rare cases) or else they have to continue fruitless research here in India which does not give useful products or research papers either. If we compare this scenario with other developing nations like China, Germany, Israel, etc they have significantly higher number of publications and employment than India in the field of nanotechnology. The figures suggests around twice the number of papers are published in these nations than that of India according to Thomson Reuters Global Research Report on India http://science.thomsonreuters.com/m/pdfs/grr-India-oct09_ag0908174.pdf
As I worked in a nanotechnology company for almost 2 years and got chance to interview and interact with the growing nanotech talented youth in India. I came to know that there is no shortage of talent but the need is to give this talent a suitable direction and chance to show their abilities.
So I would like to raise this serious issue which can kick start brain-drain of nanotech talent from India like it has happened in many technology sectors in India in the past times. I would like to inform the Government so that it can take steps to retain this talent and use it for it's growth. Serious employment shortage in this technological field of the future has to be looked into at first priority and steps like funding nanotech startups, starting nanotech entrepreneurship cells in colleges, Government funding for product based nanotech applications has to be increased by many folds.
Nanotechnology can provide solution to many problems of our lives but its own survival and development is in trouble. So I would like to request professors, students, government officials to seriously look into this issue and work; not to spread the name of nanotechnology as another bright technology of the future, but as another source of mass employment in India.
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