NEW DELHI: So far, so good. That, in a nutshell, seems to be the popular assessment in big Indian cities about the performance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government in the first 100 days in office. They believe that the government has got its priorities largely right and holds promise for the future, but are not too enthused by its ways tackling of inflation.Modi's own style is seen as a mix of decisive and dictatorial.These are among the findings of an exclusive poll done for TOI in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad. Interestingly, there were relatively minor differences in responses of different genders, age groups and socio-economic strata, but huge variations among cities.On the whole, Chennai and Kolkata emerged as the cities most sceptical of the new government's performance while Pune, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Bangalore seem the most in awe of Brand Modi. The scepticism of Chennai and Kolkata would seem to reflect the BJP's electoral performance in the respective states and the presence of strong regional parties themselves riding popularity waves.Overall, 16 per cent of respondents rated the performance of the government as 'excellent' and another 42 per cent rated it as 'good', which means a good majority approve the Modi government. About a third thought it was 'average' and roughly a 12th characterized the performance as 'poor' or 'very poor'.As in the responses to several other questions, the lowest socio-economic strata, SEC D, was less enthusiastic about Modi sarkar than the top one, SEC A. Among the top bracket, only one in 20 said the performance was poor or very poor, while in SEC D that proportion was about one in eight.The more sharp variation was among cities, with just 12 per cent in Chennai describing the government's performance as excellent or good against 86 per cent in Pune and 76 per cent in Ahmedabad.Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) holding his first Cabinet meeting on May 27, 2014.Asked whether the government had got its priorities right, 36 per cent said it had them absolutely right and 53 per cent said they were more or less right. Once again, while 58 per cent in Pune thought the priorities were on the dot, only 5 per cent in Chennai and 24 per cent in Kolkata thought so.Modi's style was seen as decisive by 51 per cent, dictatorial by 19 per cent, and both dictatorial and decisive by 25 per cent, though these proportions varied significantly across cities. So, overall, Modi was viewed as a leader well in control.On the price front, the government's performance was seen to be not so good. Only 11 per cent felt it had done an excellent job on this front and 37 per cent said it had done a good job, while 40 per cent said it was average and the rest said it was either poor or very poor.Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his first meeting with senior bureaucrats of his government.Mumbai was the most critical with just 20 per cent saying the government had done a good or excellent job versus 33 per cent who said it had done a poor or very poor job of reining in prices.The poll was conducted by leading research agency IPSOS and covered over 2,000 people in the ages 20-60, split equally between male and female and between SECs A to D.