NEW DELHI-Steel Skills Go Abegging

NEW DELHI Steel Skills Go Abegging B M THE Chairman and Managing Director of MECON, the prestigious steel design and engineering consultancy firm in the public sector, has resigned and has taken fat-salaried job with a trading and construction firm based in the UAE with which the former Chairman of the Steel Authority of India, Wadud Khan, is associated. With K C Mohan have also gone to the same firm the Chairman of the Hindustan Steel Con- struction. Corporation and a number of other senior specialists from other public and private sector organisations. This is a case of probably the largest brain drain at one go and highlights the debilitating phenomenon which is assuming bigger and bigger dimensions. But government circles in New Delhi shrug it off fatalistically and helplessly as something which cannot be helped.