Is high Salaries the reason for Reverse Brain Drain to India?

High salary cannot be the reason. The reason, is mainly the insult, an intellectual, educated, skill full or talented person feels in India.... and on the other hand, gets respect in other nations.. even from common public, that they get so much attracter towords them. They get positions there, depending upon, how much productive work they can do for the people there... how much employment they can generate, how much poverty and problems they can eradicate... no matter which group they belong to ( religionwise, regionwise, castewise, languagewise... and astonishingly even countrywise ). 

recently the holloywood blockbuster  "2012" depicted the misery of the conditions under which Indian scientists work.

There are people in India, who can feel proud to work for normal salaries too, if they get the advantage of the work they do, future security through assurances of equal approach to education and positions. This assurance would help prepare themselves strong through education and knowledge, by the time, they get normal salaries.

In short, atleast a peon, "demanding for 500 rupee note" should not be able to stop an intellectual, from entering a government office. That is the respect, right, oppurtunity and power common indians need, no matter their salary is low compared to what they may get in other countries.

I agree to all those who say that instability of foreign market has been the reason of reverse brain drain in past few months, at the same time India has also faced alot of job cuts & lay offs. high salaries were rarely offered by companies.

The recession,slow economic growth in foreign countries.

Sustained growth in India and increase in salaries and opportunites to earn more , shortage of skilled managers and projection of india GDP@8% growth,  has contributed to reverse brain drain.

Reverse brain drain  can be attributed to various reasons.Let us take automobile industry, hardly there were only two major players in India,like Hindustan Motors, Premier Motors.But today one has to refer before concluding the  numbers of automobile manufacturers in India.Similarly various industries have come up because of foreign companies investment, and the policeies they have implemented similar to their countries.Amongst the policies high salary is also one important factor.Now a days our youngsters are very carefull in their decesions, all factors are being considered such as visa,waiting period,safty.

India is not the same old as in the past, we have everything required for fast life,Indian cultural perspectiveness has changed.This trend is going to continue further as long as our youth find secured here.

The UNDP estimates that India loses $2 billion a year because of the emigration of computer experts to the U.S. Indian students going abroad for their higher studies costs India a foreign exchange outflow of $10 billion annually.

Recession & regulation in American immigration laws are the prime reason for reverse brain drain to India. Most of the expatriates who have come back used to work mainly in USA & the prime reason they came back is coz they lost their jobs. We are witnessing reverse brain drain since the last 1 or 2 years which also coincides with the start of recession. So, its not high salaries which has brought these people back to India, salaries have more or less remained stagnant in this period owing to recession.

I believe the reverse brain drain would decline as soon as USA starts emerging out of the recession & the foreign companies again start recruiting from the blue-blooded institutes of India.

I believe that economic stability in local market is responsible for reverse brain drain.  Also, to a limited extent, the changes in the political scenarios in US which is now more native friendly in nature.

Oflate it is witnessed in younger generation that they want to go abroad only for short period and earn money.  The thinking of settling down at abroad has come down.

Yes, u r right mam

Agree to your argument sir. "The grass on the other side always looks greener" but the salary package is not the only reason for it. There are other aspects as well, as you rightly mentioned. 

I would like to attribute the reverse brain dump to a couple of major co-incidences:

When the recession across the globe reached the acme, it was election time in India. No political party would want to allow the recession repercussion to wave in India, however, there was some effect as most of the IT companies in India are one or other way dependent on the revenues from their Projects running out from west. This scenario added a strength to the perception of Indian strong and robust economy.

Besides the relatively strong performance of Indian economy, Obama made some changes in the policy in terms of VISA issuance which loosened the root of many people in US. Many people felt unsafe about it and found a safer opportunity in India and other Asian countries. Additionally, some companies took this as an opportunity to move people out of the US to a low cost location ( ex: India ).

The economic stability and policies adopted by our nation is the main reason

It is the improvement of professionalism at home that is mostly responsible for reverse brain drain

Not at all, during the recession, India and China were the least effected countries and thus the job losses were not so much as it was in other countries. In India, recruiting was still going on which stopped in almost majority of the foreign countries. This was the main reason for reverse brain drain in India.

The people who migrated were opportunistic and did so because of availability of work and the relatively higher pay. Now the trend has reversed and people are returning because the opportunities are diminishing if not completely gone.

Take it with a large dose of salt, if some one (exceptions though) claims (s)he is returning to serve or give back to country.

i dont think ,this could be the only reason

No I don't think high salary is the reason for reverse brain drain. As I mentioned in the previous article, US economy was in recession for last 2 years and now it's recovering but recovery is very slow. During the last two years lots of people were lost their job and even now job creation is very low due to slow recovery. This situation is not going to improve for another few years.

Apart from this due to slow recovery people are saving more and reduce their expenditure due to uncertain job market. It hampers companies to sell their product in the market. In order to survive, these companies are shifting their base where demands are very high and that is India & China. This makes another jolt to existing unemployment condition in US.

I think reverse brain drain is happening not because of higher salary in INDIA & CHINA but because of uncertain employment condition in US.