Bangalore: Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development urged MBA students to come out with management solutions to the various challenges that the country faced on the fronts of education, health, agriculture and other sectors. With India poised to become the largest populated country with 1.7 billion people by 2050, management solutions must factor in technology and be suitably routed to address sector and region-specific complexities with a sense of urgency. He also emphasized that quality in higher education was impossible without uniformity in standards. According to an Ernst & Young study on the higher education sector in India, spends on higher education stand at Rs 46,200 crore. The growth rate for this segment is projected at 12.8 percent and is expected to touch nearly 150,000 crore in the coming decade. After laying the foundation stone for Indian Institute of Management-Tiruchi Sibal expressed the hope that girls, who have been creating a revolution in India by outshining boys in very many spheres, would constitute at least half of the entrants to IIM-T.