Six on 10, surely you`re joking?

I have been discussing this with my colleagues for the past number of days and I was glad to see this article by Sunil Jain in the Business Standard -

Set your sights low enough, and any progress made looks meaningful. And so it is with the score of six out of 10 that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has given the UPA government on its completion of a year in office. Use any other criterion, certainly by the standards set by Singh himself, and the performance is well below even a passing grade.

At this point, apologists and the spin-masters hired by the UPA will come out and tout the major achievements in the aviation sector and the opening up of banking, but it would be foolish to get caught up in the detail, especially since the NDA can rightfully claim that it had set the ball rolling on each of these initiatives........

Clearly a 60 per cent score today doesn’t mean what it used to in the old days.