Where are the civil engineers???

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/business/global/26engineer.html?_r=1

The above article might not be related to Infrastructure engineering but rather more towards Infrastructure engineers.

Indians have always had the pride to boast the IT sector, IT boom, white-collared job and so on. But unfortunately even such elites have to confront the grim reality of the Indian Infrastructure. A world bank studies says, India would need to train three times as many civil engineers as it does now to meet its infrastructure needs. There is an alarming dearth of civil/infrastructure engineers. The scenario has completely changed since 1990, when Civil outperformed IT.

Lack of right expertise/infrastructure engineers in this sector have led to whopping losses in the country. Faulty designs by the incompetent engineers have led to catastrophic failures. Rickety bridges crumbling under heavy rains, unfathomable potholes in roads, daily power cuts, water shortage, poor sanitation have all lowered the comfort zones of the users.

You find big projects successfully running in other parts of the world like Dubai. They use their potential human resources very wisely. The irony is that most of these workers/engineers migrate from India in lure of high salary.

So I feel that, it's the responsiblity of our government and other companies in this sector to stop this civil-brain drain by incentivizing these engineers in every aspects possible. A lot of trust and security have to be built around this sector for people to join and continue in this field.

Kadambari