March 13 2008 - Indians make up a good part of the US Scientists and Doctors

In a report from New Delhi published in the Singapore “The Business Times” it out lined the issue of Indians dominating professions in the US. While many people are focusing on Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi, Citibanks Vikram Pandit and the Steel Industry titian Lakshmi Mittal the figures were discussed in the upper house of the Indian parliament.

Indians in the US comprise 12 per cent of Scientists, 38 per cent of Doctors and 36 per cent of Nasa Scientists. In the light of Bill Gates testimony to the House Science and Technology Committee recently, the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, D Purandeshwari stated that 34 per cent of Microsoft employees were Indian as were 28 per cent at IBM, 17 per cent at Intel and 13 per cent at Xerox.

Minister of State for Human Resource Development, D Purandeshwari made the point that the majority of these people started in the Indian education system including the higher education system and continued overseas in successful position and careers. The Minister then outlined the further investments the government was make in research and science with 1000 new positions for scientists at various levels, 10 networking centers in leading universities 50 fellowships for research in basic sciences.