The Mass Exodus of Gen Next

Revelation on escapism to other states by new generation

Where are the generation next's of Malappuram??? Can't find any one hanging out here and there??? Are they all too much mugged and confined now? Or mugging up...where??

If we take a rough analysis of house holds in Malappuram the number of people belonging to 17-22 ages are not any more home bound. Majority of them are either pursuing higher studies in outside Kerala or employing in foreign nations. Students sticking on to their homes are not a familiar site any more in Malappuram.

Students in search of engineering seats are highly migrated from the district. Coimbatore, Bangalore and Chennai are their favourite destinations. The easy availability of seats, the mushrooming number of private engineering colleges, the comparatively less amount for donation and capitation are also supporting facts. Bangalore can by reached by one over night especially via bus and Coimbatore much more easily by train as many as Coimbatore passenger trains have stops in almost all railway stations of Malappuram. Management students are also highly opting Bangalore and Chennai dreaming of a better career and glossed life. Many of them even though are continuing studies with aids like student loans, feels it not difficult to take away family cars or bikes so as to 'enhance' their studies. The binding force between NRI relationship and Malappuram is behind all these prized and coveted possessions of Malappuram lads.

Majority of Malappuram girls are in the brink of becoming dental doctors. Students are overcoming all their difficulties that they are facing in Erode and Mangalore dreaming of wearing that white coats and carrying the stethoscope one day on their shoulders. The sprouting private universities out side Kerala are also highly preferred by students from this district. It seems to be much logical for them (or for their parents) to spent lakhs to get an under graduate degree from a private university, than by going to an 'ancient' arts and science college.

At the same time even though an aspiring student wishes to pursue their higher education in the district itself, the lagging semester system is rather in a villain role. For longer five year courses like LLB and Architecture thus students are forced to go out of the district. The lack of exposure is also another reason for courses like Mass Communication and Theatre Studies. The uncertainties in Science oriented research subjects and integrated PhD and PG students are migrating with no option left any more, to leave their home land.

If they went from the district out of necessity, majority went for getting into private and self financing institutions. At times it is passion and ambition for a future ahead that have made them to do so. But if we critically analyse the nuances isn't it simple greed of parents and peer pressure behind this mass exodus from this not so small district Malappuram???

Coming soon :"What's cooking up in other states by Malappuram guys?"
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*The above mentioned facts are opinions of the blogger.