Good for India if Trump sends H-1B visa holders back: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu


Chennai, Jan 18 (NIE): Dismissing the impact of America potentially clamping down on H1B visas for Indian immigrants, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said it would be a good thing for India as a country and a blow for America. “If Trump is amending the H-1B visas then America is going to become poorer; India will only benefit from such a move. We will get back lost talent,” he told students and educationists after inaugurating The New Indian Express’ ThinkEdu Conclave in Chennai on Wednesday.

The two-day conclave was inaugurated by the VP along with TN Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar. The VP pleasantly surprised the audience by welcoming everyone on stage in chaste Tamil that would have brought a blush to the cheeks of any seasoned Tamil orator. TNIE Editorial Director Prabhu Chawla and Editor G S Vasu presented the VP with a copy of a special book titled ‘30 Careers That Will Power 2030’, published by TNIE.

After stating that he had retired from politics but could not avoid paying tribute to former TN CM and enigmatic screen legend MGR on his birth centenary, especially when he is in Chennai, he said, “I’m very happy that the Conclave is happening in Tamil Nadu which I believe is the intellectual capital of India. There are both fertile lands and fertile minds in this State which is why some of the brightest people in our country hail from here.”

On a day packed with sessions that debated the impact of technology on rural India and whether a better education system could ‘clean up’ India’s political class, speakers like former Union minister Jairam Ramesh and NALSAR VC Faizan Mustafa brought the audience alive with their forthright views.
Perhaps the most poignant moment of the day was when a stage packed with politicians from across the spectrum — parliamentarians V Maitreyan and Tiruchi N Siva along with Jayant Sinha and Puducherry CM V Narayanaswamy found agreement — that having a better education system would lead to a cleaner political class, with the caveat, “You can educate a politician but if he chooses to be corrupt then it is a personal failing.”

Urging students to be respectful of India’s culture while striving to break barriers of caste and religion, Naidu added that they must not discriminate based on religion or caste. “We should not treat anyone as a majority or a minority, or discriminate on the basis of caste or religion. A few people who do wrong (to disturb this) should be dealt with harshly but that doesn’t mean that an entire community is at fault,” he said.

Addressing professionals who aspire to go abroad, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said, “Go abroad if you want — go, learn, earn but return to serve your motherland.”

  

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  • Valerian DSouza, Udupi/Mumbai

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    If VP is thinking that whatever is happening, will be for our good, then his statement has credance.
    Otherwise, the statement sounds fake, contradiction between our thoughts, words and deeds.
    Internal contradiction creates poison within

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  • Anticorrupt, Mangalore, Kuwait

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    Our VP is so cheap , like another rogue (piyush goyal) had mentioned unemployment for youth is better for Indian youth to help them become employers. These rogues can only be reactive with such loose statements and cannot think beyond when they are helpless and have to put their heads down. why can't they think of basics - be honest, improve our country and give much better facilities than US, UK and other developed countries. Shame on this VP.

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  • John R Lobo, Kaikamba / Mangalore

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    Let Central Govt stop RESERVATION for SC, ST and OBC through Amendment of Reservation Act OR Abolish reservation Act. Then Invite Talented people from abroad.

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  • Anilkumar, Mangalore

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    The statement by minister can be rated as one of the most stupid statements. In the first place, no one would have gone abroad on H-1B visa if there were sufficient jobs in India and sufficient remuneration to match the caliber of the talented people. At least through H-1B visa, they get employed.

    Instead of correcting our failure to provide opportunities, the minister seems to be interested in getting back the talented ones and making them to rot here. Let him comment on why they are going abroad and how he can improve the situation here so that they do not go out in search of livelihood.

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  • Flavian dsouza, chik/bengaluru

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    VP is not doing the right thing !!!How many of his family members has he asked to come back ?? many of them who tried failed miserbly in india they cannot adopt to our envirnoment and that too chaos and corruption in everywhere ...and politics in office . VP should first suggest how people in India can get decent jobs first

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  • RonRon, udupi

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    NRI'S from US.... arrange one more Grand facilitation to PM Modi

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    BJP has already finished IT in India ...

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  • prem, moodbidri

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    No jossy... they want to start from scratch....
    They will start with GauShaala, then gradually they invest system which is higher than any technology/IT in the world. It will be beyond anyone's imagination. Only FEKU/DAKU/YOGI/Ramdev having idea on that as on date!

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  • Allan Dcosta, Kinnigoli/Abu Dhabi

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    Yes..come back to work in India.. we have lot of jobs...

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    Return of high skilled people will be good for India

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  • Leela, Permude/Bangaluru

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    Yes, yes, we need more people for peeping Tom jobs - vacancies for dharnas, bunds, morchas, etc etc...

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  • kas, Mangalore

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    Let us start from Bahrain .....

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  • Sharan, Mangalore

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    The VP is right.All patriots who feel that India is shining & will shine further under India should come back to this shining Nation..welcome back 😊 Nationalist NRI.s..now work here and make your country proud.

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  • I wish I was there, Bahrain

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    Orange passport are going to be issued from now on, because BJP is in power. so get one fast and get out India.

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  • dinesh poojary, mangalore

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    being a bjp, i don't support orange passport, bjp is digging their own ground, by introducing racism.

    let them bring, my supporters will not vote for bjp, and will go against bjp.

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  • NAGESH NAYAK, MANGALORE

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    BUT WE THOUGHT BJP LIKES SAFFRON COLOR

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  • Dr MICHAEL GONSALVES, MANGALORE

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    “Go abroad if you want — go, learn, earn but return to serve your motherland.” - Surprising sentences by Vice PRESIDENT . People return @ their retired or old age. what is remaining after squeezing orange , only fruit fiber. Reason people travel English countries because of family safety . meaning for life , discipline, recognition, daily upgrading human values & technology...etc Those countries 30 to 40 years for ahead in everything.. its very difficult to catch them or race with them, unless we correct our basics.. WHY DON,T INDIAN GOVT PROVIDE PLATFORM FOR FRESH YOUNG GENERATION..?

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  • Anticorrupt, Mangalore, Kuwait

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    These Indians will opt for other countries, but will not come back to India. India's bureaucracy sucks blood of the common man.

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  • I wish I was there, Bahrain

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    First LEARN...then...remove the 'L.

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  • NAGESH NAYAK, MANGALORE

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    AMERICA GDP IS 1.6% ONLY, IF INDIANS COMES BACK, USA WILL GO ON MINUS GDP, WHERE TRUMP WILL BE FORCED TO QUIT THE PRESIDENT POST.

    ALL THE POOJA PAAT FROM BHAKTS FOR TRUMP TO BECOME PRESIDENT, GONE TOTALLY WASTE

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    Nothing can be commented now because these talented Indians are well placed in America

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  • dinesh poojary, mangalore

    Thu, Jan 18 2018

    But promise there will be no orange passport for uneducated. it will look like india is racist,

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