Hello All
I am Arun, pursuing postdoc in India. I am personally not satisfied with the postdoc stipend offered in India and I believe that the handful of students doing postdoc in India might concur with my view.

The salaries offered to Indian students is one of the major factor which is impelling Indian students to either pursue postdoc abroad or to join private R&D establishments. This is slowly devolving the scientific future of India.

As a postdoc, I recieve stipened of just Rs 15,000/-per month, which is just Rs 1,000/- more than a SRF (Senior Research Fellow) in India. The salary is too low to ensure proper running of a family of even two. Whereas, private R&D establishments offers anything between 50,000-70,0000 per month, which is a decent salary, so why not the young researchers will be attracted to such companies? A call centre employee (with Bachelors degree or diploma holder) gets more than a Post doc fellow. Such disparity enrages us and makes us to feel that is the years of long and hard research pays off only this much? Is our studies worthless?

Atlast, I feel that some immediate steps be taken and postdoc problems be addressed at the earliest or else India will soon face the dearth of scientifically skilled people and such a loss will be irreparable.