June 1, 1998

Only Chairpersons and Managing directors of top Indian private and public-sector corporations and MNCs were reached for an India Today Poll conducted over four weeks ending May 7 -- just before India's nuclear tests The 63 respondents represent manufacturing, services, petrochemicals, engineering, banking and finance. Follow-up reveals that key perceptions haven't changed since the tests. It's clearly a pro-reform result. Some 87 % of the CEOs of Indian companies feel MNCS should'nt be banned from making consumer goods. And an overall 80 per cent feel this Government has a better chance than previous governments to boost the economy.

Do you expect the budget to be...

All respondents
Rest: don't know/can't say
The graphs are only representations and not to scale

How do you rate the following in terms of government priority?

(Some respondents devised their own scale. Those values have been converted to make a common scale. Some have ranked more than one item in certain priorities)

On a scale of 1 to 10 how do you rate the stability of the Government?

Those who ranked 5: 15.5    Ranked 6:15.5
Ranked 7:9  Respondents: Indian Companies
All figures in percentage              

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