Dunno about the phrase "getting their licences whilst we speak"
I just got back from India yesterday and there were a couple of articles in the local rag about the fact that there were no instructors to train students because of poaching by the airlines.
A flying school in Bombay has suspended ops because their cfi left.
Another story was that 10 pilots had left Air India? a couple of days ago for a new start up and a month or so ago the minister for aviation( or someone high up) had told the airlines to stop poaching each others pilots and had upped the retirement age to 61.