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As it turned out, Bengaluru's gain was Bengal's loss and things have not changed much over a decade and a half.A lot has happened since then. I hope some of them stay back and remake Bengal and Kolkata," Pai said while speaking on the future of education in India at the bicentenary celebrations of Presidency University on Friday. "What is needed is proper dissemination of this knowledge keeping in mind the huge societal divide over higher education.While 46% of Tamil Nadu's population enrolls for higher education, it is only 19% in West Bengal. Of the 10 million population of Bengaluru, the IT industry has 1.5 million, and of these 1,50,000 are young Bengalis. He knew this was a brain drain that would affect Bengal in the long run..