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New Delhi: Manmohan Singh’s government has failed poor people, scoring below passing marks in employment, education, health and social equity among other main promises made in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP), two years back.

Releasing the progress report on two years of the UPA government, over 250 civil society organisations from across 14 states under the banner of `Wada Na Todo Abhiyan’ (WNTA – Keep your Promises Campaign), a national NGO coalition, said that precious little has been achieved during the last year. The government needs to put in extra efforts to translate its good intentions into visible results on the ground, both in cities and in villages.

The progress report, made to appear like a true school report card complete with an examination board titled, `Civil Society Board for Governance Accountability’, gives the UPA government an aggregate of only 2.96 out of a total of 10 marks. The government scores the maximum in governance – 3.35 out of 10 – yet fails to pass. It scores 3.27 in education; 2.7 in health; 2.42 in social exclusion and discrimination; 3 in land, livelihoods and displacement and 3.05 in human rights and secularism. "