They have enjoyed the benefit of being the small minority getting fancy degrees from good universities in India which are financed by the state at the cost of neglecting the elementary educational needs of the hundreds of millions of poor in India.

In fact, a study has shown that IITians contribute Rs 20 lakh crore to the Indian economy :that is Rs 15 for every Rs spent on them and that each IIT graduate meant 100 new jobs. I haven’t read the report myself, but it might be difficult to fudge such big numbers.

You are right about the state financing universities, though government subsidies have been on a decreasing trend, and alumnis do contribute these days to IITs at least. But there are very few such universities, and the amount spent on them IMHO would be miniscule compared to the cost of educating the entire youth of the country. I don’t think you can blame these subsidies for “neglecting the elementary educational needs of the hundreds of millions of poor in India”. The “elementary educational needs” are denied simply because India is still a very poor country with very poor infrastructure and there is corruption at every level of government.

With the US however, you can get credit for tax paid to a foreign country, so it’s not really double taxation. I don’t know what the Indian rule will be…

NRI = Indian citizen who lives out side India for more than 182 days between 1st April and 31st March. You can be born anywhere say UAE, if you are an Indian Citizen and satisy the residence conditions you are a NRI

Not Ordinarily Resident – An individual, who is defined as Resident in a given financial year is said to be “not Ordinarily Resident” in any previous year if he has been a Non-Resident in India nine out of the 10 preceding previous years or he has during the seven preceding previous years been in India for a period of, or periods amounting in all to, 729 days or less.

Also, it might also make all the green card holders to get that coveted citizenship, instead of having benefits in both countries. Yes, the benefit includes not having to vote too )

NRI refers to Indians living abroad, not to people of Indian origin born and raised abroad who are citizens and residents of their home countries. The term “non-resident” implies that you could have been or once were “resident” in India. Look at it this way, if you have to get a visa to enter India, then you are not an NRI.

.

That is a fair point; though I was thinking mainly of NRIs are people who have been brought up and schooled abroad and usually born abroad as well. Their direct connections and experience with India tend to be tenous. You are right to point out that there is a newer trend of NRIs who go out from elite institutions to work abroad but many of them though strictly speaking NRIs in terms of visa and tax purposes; I tend just to regard as Indians abroad since they come back after a few years. Those that remain will be a small minority of the total NRI population I would have thought. Aside from which my understanding is that now IITs and IIMs are pretty much revenue generating rather than being generously subsidised by the state but I could be wrong here.