India's Education Minister does not trust Science

India's education minister, Smriti Irani, visits an Astrologer. Reference.
This is bad news for India. Astrology is not proven in Science. So if Education Minister of a country is superstitious, what policies can we expect from her?

India is trying to make 2 changes to its education policies:

1. Sanskrit will be in schools instead of foreign languages. Reference.
2. Children should be taught in their mother-tongue. Reference.

Both the above policies are fundamentally flawed. The decision, of which language a child will study, is the right of child and its parents; the government should have no say in this issue. The government is violating the rights of its citizens by forcing Sanskrit and mother tongue languages.
If a child (with permission from his/her parents) wants to study Mandarin, what problem does India's education minister have with it? The parents are willing to bear the full expenses; they don't want any help from government.

Indian education is poor because

• Course content is decided by government
• Fees paid by students are mostly decided or controlled by government
• Teachers' salary and promotion is determined by government
• Exams are conducted by government controlled universities

India's education will improve when there is no government intervention of government in education. The competition among private school/colleges will cause the standard to rise. India's education minister should free education from government control, but instead she is increasing the government role in education.