The Perak government was accorded a low score of 21.4 out of 100 by the state opposition, NGOs and other stakeholders for its delivery of its election promises, according to a report card by the group Kuasa.

Kuasa said the result was obtained after the BN-led state government, state opposition, and stakeholders were asked to rate each of BN's 49 election pledges in the state on a 10-point scale.

However, Kuasa CEO Praba Ganesan ( left ) claimed that the state government did not respond to the request.

He said a similar survey was also conducted on the Pakatan Rakyat-led Selangor government, but the BN-led state opposition have yet to respond as well.

This left the Selangor state government's self-appraisal and comments from a handful of NGOs to dominate the state's score of 67.5 for 54 election pledges.

"We are not passing judgement on anyone. It is not Kuasa saying Selangor or Perak is like this," Praba said, stressing that his NGO is merely collecting feedback on election pledges.

"We would like to focus on policies and pledges that people make in order for people to win, because that's what people should be judged on, a lot.”

However, he said in the case of Malaysia, people are more intent on focussing on the “scandal of the day”.

Adjustment in weightage

Originally, the self-appraisals of state governments was to make up half the score, while feedback from the state opposition and other stakeholders make up 20 percent and 30 percent respectively. However, this had to be adjusted since BN state leaders did not respond.

As a result of the adjustment, Pakatan Rakyat’s appraisal has a weightage of 40 percent in Perak (up from 20 percent) and 63 percent in Selangor (up from 50 percent) instead, while the remainder came from NGOs and groups such as the People’s Volunteer Corps (Rela) and Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (Risda).

There are also only a handful of groups such as Perak Consumers Association and the Centre for Orang Asli Concerns that have provided a response, while many more groups have yet to comment, or declined to comment.

The area that the Perak government did worst - according to stakeholders who did respond and the state opposition - was its election promises related to housing, with an average score of 8.3, while it did best in the area of welfare (36.6).

For the Selangor government, it was rated best in welfare as well (78.9) and fared worst in its development promises (53.9).

However, Praba stressed that these are results of their first year in government, and neither states should be expected to have delivered all its promises.

He also hopes that with the publication of Kuasa’s findings, more groups including BN would be encouraged to give feedback, which will then be incorporated in the results.

“There are a lot of voices that we haven’t yet included, and we want to include those voices. Therefore, we are careful about saying that this is the final be-all graduation score; it is not.

“It is a starting point, and it is a continuously process for evaluation. We hope this will make more people interested in the idea of evaluating, and coming out to be a part of this... the score will become a little bit and a little bit better, but it will never be perfect,” project head Logandran Balavijendran added.

The group also hopes to expand the project to include other states, and to conduct a roadshow to publicise the findings.

In the meantime, the results, including the copies of the response forms that have been filled out, are published on the group’s website .