I think, the monetary reward is not as per the expectations.

this one one of problem but other problems are very worst

Research has little value in India. There is lack of infrastructure, funds, will, motivation. Blind dependence on myths (a judge said that peacock cries and becomes pregnant) and pride in a glorious Mahabharata past (everything was invented in India) prevents us from realising that we live in the modern world.

Well, firstly it is the quality of education available in India (not just India, but even countries like China or East Europe / Africa). Language is an important part of communication, which unfortunately is rather poor in developing countries. Furthermore, India has never found research to be an important component of it's national policy. I hear the share of research in the GDP is rather low.

Quality and standards in such countries tend to be very low, so you either have very brilliant students who have mastered such subjects (like those from IITs) because the resources available are limited or you have highly 'qualified' graduates who have trouble expressing their ideas in simple understandable English.

So, it's probably a top-down thing and folks such as yourself should keep standards at your level higher, if you don't receive support I guess.

Hope this helps.

Dear dinesh Research has little value in India and There is lack of infrastructure and funds you said right...agree perhaps huge decrese in funds since 3 years but fake publicity of hiking funds is going on...due to lack disicplined peaples in system

and Santosh J. Dubey you said communication problem thats also one of part one professer mail me same thing that we have good brains (for innovate) but lack of communication barrier

@ Kapil,

I agree with your suggestion, in fact, Indians might have tremendous potential to contribute to the broader body of knowledge known to mankind, but due to communication barriers this contribution seems to be restricted.

In fact, Indians rank low on preuniversity based assessment (Pisa comes to mind), but they have good engineering colleges such as IITs, IIMs - but this is clearly not enough.

I would, at best, rate IIT-Delhi/IIT-Bombay at par with, say, my previous university (Nanyang Tech. University), but that's it. To break into the likes of MITs / Stanfords, you need funding and that's where the best and the brightest go to I suppose.

A country of India's size is expected to produce more... it's a utter waste of resources. Things are so badly managed that it hinges on borderline criminality. Utter waste of human talent.

A quick answer: India only spends 0.5% of GDP, while China spends about 1% and the USA, in excess of 2%. I know several Indians who are doing their PhD work here in Europe,  and what I hear is that there are all kinds of barriers like,  principally caste, then language,  religion,   state or regional differentiation, and worst still, less than intellectual honesty of the kind wherein heads of departments or faculty bosses have to be included as co-authors, when they have never been anywhere near a laboratory. Better facilities and equipment could also speed up  the research. And that factor  alone is attractive to researchers; and  so they go abroad.

A couple of years ago, a colleague and I took some 25 students to India to study outsourcing (or off-shoring) of R&D; I have to say excellent work was and is being done by researchers in many fields but as salaries are not very attractive, there was much job-hopping. It is still happening today. Job-hopping does not help employers if they lose skilled  and experienced employees to other companies; the result is  wages have been rising.

The characteristics evident in India is what is slowing down India. Do think of all those Indians who escape India's peculiar orbit and find themselves in  Asia-Pacific,  N America and Western Europe -- they are all  doing excellent work in their adopted "homelands" and are extremely successful.

There is a brain drain in Australia as well. It is good to go abroad and widen one's experience and knowledge, but at the same time it is essential to be innovative with what resources are available. There is not so much research funding now. Social background can be a determinant in Australia as well. A lot of brilliant research is done in Australia but there are major problems with commercializing it or putting it in place to serve humanity. There is little recognition and the research outcomes go overseas for development. Kerre

Phil Barbonis sir i agree whatever you said is right and up to the reality....

Kerre Ann Willsher madam you said that it is essential to be innovative with what resources are available....you noticed very rightly... it is positive point and one should also note that what we have and what we have to delivered within what we have....very positive comment

As Phil pointed out earlier, there are ahost of Macro-level & Micro-level problems, which a PhD student/ Researcher has to encounter in India.

There are multifarious problems/issues invovled & writing about this in itself can be developed into a PhD thesis.

I am just mentioning some of them:

1. Availability of Funding from Industry/Corporates is meagre

2. Collecting Data is not as seamless & easy as it is in some of the western countries, including US , European & Pacific countries.

3. There is a complete lack of synergy between Industry & Academia.

4. Even premier Institutions &/Universities are not ready to provide adequate resources to Faculty members for Funded Research, leave alone B & C category institutions.

The above-mentioned reasons are not exhaustive by any means. STILL INDIAN ARE ABLE TO COMPLETE THEIR PhD in India.

The good thing is that things are changing now...... & INDIA is poised to become a top performing country in Research & Development. (R & D)

Thanks