Private investment in education may also help curtail the trend of brain drain. Since all private investments invariably seek returns, private sponsors of students can insist that the students whom they support should serve social interests for a specified minimum period after education. Sponsors should also
be allowed to assess the performance. Of their beneficiaries from time. to time to ensure that the invested money is serving its purpose well. If scholarship or sponsorship becomes necessary for every student to pursue higher studies , a sense of responsibility and obligation will naturally develop among the students, which will curtail their urge to leave the country.
The second aspect of brain drain – misuse of opportunities, is caused by both the society and the student. In other words, they share the responsibility for such misuse. It is as much the responsibility of society to provide useful and attractive opportunities for livelihood to the educated youth as of the youth, in turn, to make use of those opportunities. It is a fact, that despite the prevalence of brain drain for a long time, a good part of trained talent continues to stay on within the country. That talent, by its own efforts, overcomes the various challenges and set-backs it encounters and manages to thrive. The evidence of such talent is in the remarkable progress we have made in different fields of activity since Independence. It may be, that some, who do not have it in them to overcome challenges, choose the easy way out by quitting the country. Such people, owing to their inability to persevere, would not be successful if they were forced to stay on.