Budget fares worse than last year in popular mood

New Delhi, Feb 1 : There is a major negative change in sentiment for the Union Budget 2021-22 as compared to last year, as per the IANS C-Voter Budget Insta-Poll.
The poll, which was conducted after the presentation of the Budget in the Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, included a sample size of 1,200 people selected randomly across all demographics.
The overall score given by the respondents to Budget 2021-22 is 5.3 points, as compared to a much higher rating of 7.1 last year.
As per the poll, 46.1 per cent respondents said that prices will not at all come down after the Budget while 18.1 per cent said they will come down to a large extent.
Over half of the respondents in the survey or 50.7 per cent said that the overall quality of life in the last one year has deteriorated. This is the worst score for the Modi government since 2015. Last year, only 31.3 per cent said the quality of life had deteriorated.
There is some optimism for the coming year as 27.6 per cent expect the quality of life to improve in the next one year while a bigger number of 29 per cent expects it to deteriorate. Last year, 53.7 per cent said they expected the quality of life to improve in the coming year.