Even though the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has returned to power in Uttarakhand with a facile victory, the assessment of its governance by voters was mixed and less emphatic. In the CSDS-Lokniti post-poll survey in the State, voters were asked to rate the work done on key governance parameters such as roads, electricity, water supply, health, and education. While the government was seen as having performed on the first three, it was on the issues of health and education that people were more likely to be critical.
On being asked whether the condition of roads in the State had improved or deteriorated in the last five years of the BJP government, three-fifths of voters answered in the affirmative. Their assessment of drinking water supply and power supply was even better, with close to three-fourths reporting an improvement. Voters in the Kumaon hills were, however, less impressed with respect to all the three parameters, especially with roads, as compared to voters in the Garhwal hills and the Maidan area. Nonetheless, they too were more likely to believe that things had improved rather than deteriorated.
