Manmohan govt marks first year in office today

The alliance was sworn into office May 22 last year with former finance minister Manmohan Singh as the prime minister.

"There are no great celebrations planned," the government official, who wished to remain unidentified, said yesterday.

"The prime minister will release the government's report card which will let the people know what the government has achieved," he said.

Two opinion polls this week found a vast majority of voters felt Singh was an honest politician who had done a respectable job.

Two out of three respondents in The Times of India newspaper survey rated his performance as good or average while only seven percent called it poor.

A survey by the Week magazine found more than 70 percent felt Singh was India's "most honest" politician in a country where political corruption is considered rife with an equal number saying he had "fared well."