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After Four Years Of Modi Mark Governance 57% Of Citizens With Performance:- Four years back, the Narendra Modi led NDA surprised pollsters by sweeping the elections with 325 Parliamentary seats and formed the Government. The win followed an aggressive campaign that promised a clean government and improvement across all spheres of life. Modi as a new face with a strong appeal raised the expectation of people that change is possible and the country can see better days. Modi’s mantra - minimize the government and maximize governance. The Modi Government wanted to reduce red tape making it easier to do business in India.

To mark the annual performance and its perception among citizens, LocalCircles conducts a very exhaustive survey to get citizen feedback on how the Central Government has fared. The outcome of this survey gives a picture of the Government’s performance on 23 different areas or parameters. These parameters are based on promises made by the government in its manifesto or issues identified by citizens on LocalCircles’ platform. This year’s survey received more than 1,75,000 votes from approximately 62,000 citizens in 250 districts of India and is the largest exercise of its kind where citizens assess Government performance.

This year, a total of 57% citizens said that the Government has either met or exceeded their expectations in the last 4 years. Around 28% citizens said the Government has exceeded their expectation and this metric has shown a dramatic improvement upwards compared to 17% last year and 18% in 2016. While, only 29% citizens said that the Government meets the expectation and this has fallen from 44% last year and 46% in the year 2016. In 2016, 36% rated the Government as not meeting expectations which rose to 39% in 2017 and in 2018 this number rises to 43%. This means that opinion about Government performance is more polarised now, with both exceed expectation and not meeting expectation percentages going up.