This piece of news does no surprise me really. Many countries have attempted that, and also have simplified their scripts with varying degrees of success. While this may simplify Indic languages of north India, the flip side is that we would lose a valuable repository of past knowledge that is written in their original scripts.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had visualized this scenario a long time back when he suggested that (as in his Provisional Government of Free India) the "Hindustani" language could be implemented with a Roman script and Devanagari/ Hindi/ Urdu words. His ideas seem to be relevant even to this day.
