Brain Drain: Over the past three years, a total of 24,278 Indians, including students, residing abroad died because of various reasons, the reply to an application filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act revealed. Sharing the statistics, the Ministry of External Affairs' Diaspora Engagement Division, in response to an application filed by RTI Activist Dr Vivek Pandey, revealed that as many as 1,622 of these 24,278 Indian, including students, died in traffic-related incidents, while 686 died from "occupational hazards", 1,763 from suicide, and 136 due to violent acts or murder.
Recently, in response to a question in the Lok Sabha, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan informed the House that as many as 8,94,783 students went abroad for higher education last year.
Every year, many students head for foreign shores to pursue higher studies in various fields including medicine, business, engineering, computer science, and hospitality, with medicine being one of the most popular choices.
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