Delhi will vote to elect its seven members of parliament on May 12. The voters have more or less decided what are the key issues going to be. Among all the issues that the voters have identified, traffic, pollution and women's security are on top.??
According to a study conducted by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) here are the?key findings?after Delhiites where asked about their problems.
The ADR survey done in Delhi NCT find out that traffic, water and air pollution are indeed the major issues or priorities that concern the people in Delhi, but the issues like better employment opportunities are also among the key issues. While 49.67 per cent respondent believe that traffic congestion is the main issue, water and air pollution was voted as key issue? by 44.52 per cent.?
Better employment opportunities, was another people in Delhi are concern for as 43.07 per cent people think it¡¯s the key issue that concerns people in Delhi.
The top three issues were traffic congestion, water and air pollution and better employment opportunities and when asked about rating the government¡¯s steps in tackling these three main issues, the respondents have the government below average marks.?
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On the scale of 1 to 5, the respondents in Delhi have only 2.27 marks on the scale of 5 in terms of? performing to ease traffic congestion. In terms of dealing with water and air pollution, the respondents think the government performed below par and they gave 2.29 marks while the government received 2.29 marks on the scale of 5 in providing better employment opportunities.
Govt performed very poorly on ¡®Empowerment of Women and Security¡¯ and ¡®Noise Pollution¡¯
The issues like ¡®Empowerment of Women and Security¡¯ received only 1.85 marks on the scale of 5 which is very poor given that Delhi is known for crime against women. ¡®Noise Pollution¡¯ was another issue where the government needs to work diligently as it got only 2.27 marks on the scale of 5.
The respondents in rural areas of Delhi? have three major priorities- Higher Price Realization for Farm Products (56%), Better Employment Opportunities (52%), and Electricity for Agriculture (44%).
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And the voters in rural Delhi too believe that government hasn¡¯t done enough to address their key issues as? Higher Price Realization for Farm Products (2.12 on a scale of 5), Better Employment Opportunities (2.17), and Electricity for Agriculture (2.25) was rated as below average.
As per the Census 2011, 97.50 per cent of Delhi¡¯s population is urban and therefore the prime focus of the survey was on the priorities of the urban voters.
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