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"On Friday night, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation imposing a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas, a program widely used by global and Indian IT companies. By Saturday night, the White House clarified the fee will only apply to new visas, not renewals or existing holders, offering partial relief." "The move threatened not only individual careers but also India's $250-billion IT services industry, which relies on overseas deployment." ET. "Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Dr PK Mishra,..said under its Capacity Building Commission, the Centre had been encouraging Indians working abroad to return to the country." DH. "The Capacity Building Commission was consulted through the Gazette of India on 1st April 2021." "National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) - Mission Karmayogi aims to create a competent civil service rooted in Indian ethos." cbc.gov.in. This means bowing to the ground and saying 'jo hukam' (will do as ordered) to the Dear Leader, no matter how harmful for the people. In 2016, a completely irrational whim, obeyed by a servile "Indian ethos", resulted in the unbearable pain of demonetisation of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 banknotes (BBC) for the poor and the middle class. The claim was that black money, money on which tax had been evaded, as well as counterfeit notes would be destroyed. But, 99% of the demonetized notes were returned to the banking system and only 573,891 fake notes out of a total of 24.02 billion notes, close to 0%, were detected. Thus demonetisation was an "epic failure", wrote Vivek Kaul. Sadly, no 'Karmayogi' protested against this brutal assault on the Indian people. On 24 March 2020, Mr Modi perpetrated a total lockdown on the nation with just 4 hours notice, when there were only 500 cases of Covid-19. epw.in. Suddenly thrown out of jobs, with no money to pay for food or rent, millions of migrant workers, and their little children, walked thousands of miles back to their villages (TOI) with no help from the so-called 'Karmayogis'. "India's export sector is being 'strangled by a bureaucratic system'," security analyst and Observer Research Foundation Sushant Sareen warned, after fresh complaints from exporters about excessive documentation requirements." Apparently, "shipping a single container requires generating 17 to 18 different documents." BT. "Indian billionaires are quitting the UK and US but none of them want to return to India, according to RPG Group Chairman Harsh Goenka." "Tehseen Poonawalla, venture capitalist and internet personality, believes it's to do with 'tax terrorism' and 'GST extortion' and, of course, bureaucracy." HT. Thousands of faculty positions in universities lie vacant. "According to data from July this year, 26% of the total 18,951 sanctioned faculty posts in 46 Central universities are vacant." "No wonder, that of the college-educated youth in the 24-29 age group, the unemployment rate is more than 30%." DH. "Forget Harvard, Oxford or Toronto. Thousands of Indian students are now packing their bags for Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Malta and even North Korea." Zee News. Those left behind try for the unbelievable rewards of civil services. "India is squandering its brightest minds chasing a dream with a 99.9% failure rate, economist Sanjeev Sanyal warned, sharply criticising the civil services obsession as a 'complete waste of human resource'." BT. 'Karma' means action and a 'yogi' is an ascetic who would do no harm through his karma. Our lot are the opposite. Why would the NRIs come back?