To cut to the chase, Ms Irani has been a failure. One would have expected her to have had ample time at her disposal to formulate a core set of ideas that would define the state of our education well beyond the five years that are allowed her. While she is required to fulfill her party’s election promises, the portfolio she’s been given requires her to have vision, which in turn means to go over and above her ministry, party, and even Prime minister. What would education look like in India, in 2030? What are the policies, and the institutions needed? What are the institutions that would most certainly fail to get us to where we’d like to see ourselves in 2030? Two years ago, this author had written in detail on the abject state of our education, our schools, and in particular our universities. Little has changed; in fact, things have only gotten worse. A visionary minister would have realized at once what needed to be done. The table below – the Vision Table – is but a sad reflection of what Ms Irani has achieved or set out to achieve in this context.