Despite inconveniences, 79% Indians support demonetisation

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Despite significant inconveniences, pain and loss of productivity, support for the government’s demonetization program has increased during the last week. A portion of the citizens who were unsure of such a demoentization program earlier and the ones who did not support it are now lending support to the program.

In a related survey, 44 percent of the same citizens outlined that they found the ATMs non-functional, yet most are in support of this scheme by the Government of India and feel that long term benefits will outweigh the short term pain.

The Prime Minister announced the demonetisation scheme on Nov 8th via an address to the nation.In a follow on poll conducted by Local Circles after a week, on Nov 15th, 79% citizens are still in full support of the currency demonetization program despite the inconveniences its causing.

Another 18% said that while they support it, it is causing pain to them. The remaining 3% citizens do not suppport the program. The survey was conducted amongst 10,000 citizens from across 200 cities of India. 68% of the participants were male while 32% of them were females.

On Nov 14th, in a different survey conducted on the platform, 44% of the same citizens said that ATMs were non-functional in their area. The survey was also done seperately in 13 states of India in the online local communities that Local Circles has there.