IITians not ready to work at ISRO at 5digit monthly salary.

Everything is so expensive right now. Is it wrong to think about financial stability.

It's always about the money. IITians be lining outside to get the job of a janitor if being a janitor paid 30l+. With cover letters mentioning how they dream about sweeping the floors clean.

Same is true for everyone else. If ISIS be hiring remote SWEs roles paying 40+l for writing code for rockets then y'all be happily asking for referrals from a bunch of terrorists

"Somanath, who is at the top post at ISRO and also the secretary of the Department of Space, was Rs 2.5 lakh - which is the average placement package in top IITs"

We need to stop making an example of sacrifice. Pay talent (and yourself) fairly or you'll see among your talent people to whom sitting on the high horse of self sacrifice is as dear as money

What kind of moral guilty trip is this? We're not in state of emergency where you must stand with nation's services. If ISRO wants top talent, they need to pay for top talent.

Passion is for the privileged which most IITians are not.

I don't blame them and tbh if I were one of them, I'd do the same too.

If we as a country demand first world level income tax from our highest earners and give crumbling infrastructure in return then they will leave.

I know OP will not like what I'm saying but don't blame the players because the rules of the game are rigged. We're poorly run as a country and continually bringing up patriotism is just denying the real issues here.

If we need our best and brightest to stay then we need to look at ourselves and see why they're leaving. Why are we so beholden to the idea that our primary allegiance is to our country, most of everyone here works for multinationals with no boundaries, consumes content from the world over and probably only buys international merchandise. In a capitalistic world, the only allegiance is to yourself and these guys are following the rational outcome of the system that produced them.

So yeah, solutions are there but I don't think we're ready to really rewire ourselves and we'd rather blame the players, not the game or the ones who make the rules.

Like my girl, Madonna, said: 'cause we're living in a material world 🎶🎶

Aerospace Engineering is way more difficult than CSE hence people prefer going for coding related jobs or do MBA after engineering because it's way too easy compared to do an Master's degree or PhD in Aerospace

People here be quoting "Somnath is getting 2.5lpa" What most people don't realise is what else he and other ISRO employees get from govt. Their kids education is funded by govt, they get vehicle, servants, banglow, bonuses, no medical expenses. Loan at insanely low rate from govt banks, and many other benefits. Let's be honest here a person who is going to IIT has only money as main motivating factor rest everything to them is "what a non IITn would do"

After some practical inside grinding -

Most of them, at their first year come with dreaming a job in fancy companies, let this be "X"%, most of these falling under X will somehow attain a job.

Who join IIT for IAS/IES/IPS(UPSC) Still, let this be some "U"%

Students who aspire to pursue higher education in their respective research specialisations are "R"%

MBA folks - "B"%

Students under X (~98% of X) don't look for writing ISRO exam, you knew their motive enough.

B students barely look to this exam (buffering if one or two took this by mistake)

We are left with U & R who can attempt ISRO as they've grip in their respective branch concepts.

Very few from U attempt but if they're qualified they think a lot to join.

Now, R, these will definitely have the motive to work in ISRO if selected, but biggest % of them are fancy for Foreign University tag and cannot join ISRO at the last minute.

For an academic year having ~1000 students: X>>>>>>>B>>>R>U.

Interesting part:

There are 100s of non IIT engineering colleges in India, there are lakhs of students (don't just stop at 9L, assume the highest number you know) and atleast 10k students who pray to work for ISRO, this also includes who are taking another attempt to write for ISRO.

Guess how many IITians are serious about this exam? Very less compared, right?

First year students are attracted by fancy lifestyle as they have studied their assess off to land at IIT.

Go to any IIT couple of years back, ISRO comes in talk only from final or pre final concentrated students.

ISRO was more of a prouder lifestyle than a fancy one.
Consistency of maturity might not be possible to all.

Injecting ISRO dream into a first year student on their induction programme is 1% club, ain't easy.