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Elections are here. It is a good time to look back and look ahead. How does the report card of Modi government’s five years look like? And what are the expectations from the new government, irrespective of who comes to power?ET Magazine reached out to two of its most important constituencies — India Inc ’s CEOs and readers — to get a perspective. For the CEO poll, ET Magazine reached out to over 130 CEOs of whom 95 responded.The CEOs are from diverse sectors, with startups and investors (33%) and services (21%) forming the biggest block. The reader’s poll was conducted online.Their views are revealing. A majority of them — 60% of the CEOs and 73% of the readers polled — rate the Modi government’s five years as good, while 36% and 13% respectively call it average.Across all respondents, the NDA government’s infrastructure push and its efforts to strengthen Brand India are seen as its biggest achievements. There is also near unanimity on the government’s biggest failure — unemployment . 35% of CEOs and 41% of readers call it the biggest letdown.In the world’s youngest country where both unemployment and unemployability are reaching crisis proportions, this is hardly surprising. They differ, though, on the government’s second biggest failure: 26% CEOs say it’s the rising communal discord, while 38% of readers believe it is farm distress.The CEOs were also asked to pick the best performing ministers. Nitin Gadkari , minister of road, transport and highways, leads with a huge margin, followed by Minister of Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal.Interestingly, ministers holding critical portfolios — Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh — do not rank among the top five.A majority of CEOs (71%) and readers ( 78%) are betting on the Modi government to return to power. Further, 41% of CEOs expect the NDA government to come back with majority while 36% think it will emerge as the largest bloc.Creating jobs, pushing up economic growth and tackling farm distress are the top three areas that the respondents want the new government to focus on. True, CEOs and digitally savvy readers do not represent the country’s 900 million voters with different interests.But it is also true that, in a relative sense, this segment might be among the most informed electorate. Which is why their grades and expectations should matter for the powers that be and will be.