Ease of Living Index: Surat ranked 19, Ahmedabad 23, Vadodara 36, Gandhinagar 39

New Delhi:  Surat has been ranked 19th in Ease of Living Index of cities across India declared by the Centre. Ahmedabad has been ranked 23rd while Vadodara 36th, Rajkot 38th and Gandhinagar  39th. Dahod has been ranked 79th. Full list here.

The ranking was given based on four pillars – Social, Economic, Physical and Institutional. Ranks were given based on criteria such as – Governance, Identity and Culture, Education, Health, Safety and Security, Economy and Employment, Housing and Inclusiveness, Public Open Spaces, Mixed Land-Use and Compactness, Power Supply, Transportation and Mobility, Assured Water Supply, Waste Water Management, Solid Waste Management and Reduced Pollution.

Shri Hardeep Puri, Minister of State (I/C) for Housing & Urban Affairs has stated that while Swachh Survekshan 2019 will focus on sustainability and encourage large scale citizen participation and ensure progress towards garbage free and open defecation free cities, the Ease of Living Index will encourage cities to move towards an ‘outcome-based’ approach to Urban planning &Management. Sh. Puri launched the fourth edition of the annual cleanliness survey of urban India – Swachh Survekshan 2019, here on Monday. The event also saw the launch of the SBM ODF+ and SBM ODF++ Protocols, web-based citizen engagement platform Swachh Manch, the Ease of Living Index and Ease of Living Index dashboard. Sh Durga Shanker Mishra,Secretary, MoHUA and senior officers of the ministry were also present during the occasion.

 

EASE OF LIVING INDEX

                The Ease of Living Index is an initiative of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) to help cities assess their liveability vis-à-vis global and national benchmarks and encourage cities to move towards an ‘outcome-based’ approach to urban planning and management. It was decided in June 2017 to rank cities based on the liveability parameters. The implementation of the assessment commenced formally on 19 January, 2018 covering 111 cities.(Annexure I)

Ease of Living framework comprises four pillars namely Institutional, Social, Economic and Physical which are further broken down into 15 categories and 78 indicators.

 

Evaluation of cities has been done on a 100-point scale across the 78 indicators with the institutional and social pillars carrying 25 points each, 5 points for the pillar on economic and 45 points for the physical pillar. The whole exercise is being carried out on a mass scale and began with a National Orientation Workshop to orient city officials on assessment framework. It was followed by 33 state level workshops spread across all 36 states and Union Territories.

A data entry portal and a monitoring dashboard for real time update on progress was established. The cities submitted data on more than 50000 points. Secondary audit of 10,000 documents, physical audit of 14,000 units and survey of more than 60,000 citizens have been completed which led to finalization of ease of living index.

The Ease of Living assessment standards are closely linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and will provide a strong impetus to India’s effort for systematic tracking progress of SDGs in the urban areas. Of the 17 SDG goals, 8 goals are directly linked to India’s ease of living assessment framework with SDG 11 that is aimed at making our cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable being measured through a set of 30 indicators.

Apart from presenting the overall national ranking of 111 cities, the dashboard will present ranking of the cities across pillars, category, geographical zone and population classifications (four classifications of cities based on population include: Classification 1- Cities with population of 4 million and above; Classification 2: Cities with population greater than1 million but less than 4 million; Classification 3: Cities with population greater 0.5 million but less than 1 million; and Classification 4: Cities with population less than 0.5 million). The dashboard will also have a comparison feature that will allow users to analyse the performance across cities on various liveability parameters. Ease of Living Index dashboard is available at https://smartnet.niua.org/.

 

Ranking: Ease of Living Index

Top ten cities
  1. Pune
  1. Navi Mumbai
  1. Greater Mumbai
  1. Tirupati
  1. Chandigarh
  1. Thane
  1. Raipur
  1. Indore
  1. Vijaywada
  1. Bhopal

Pillar Wise: Top ten cities

Institutional Social Economic Physical
  1. Navi Mumbai
  1. Tirupati
  1. Chandigarh
  1. Greater Mumbai
  1. Tirupati
  1. Tiruchirappalli
  1. Ajmer
  1. Pune
  1. Karim Nagar
  1. Navi Mumbai
  1. Kota
  1. Thane
  1. Hyderabad
  1. Chandigarh
  1. Indore
  1. Chandigarh
  1. Bilaspur
  1. Pune
  1. Tiruppur
  1. Raipur
  1. Kochi
  1. Greater Mumbai
  1. Itanagar
  1. Tirupati
  1. Ahmedabad
  1. Amravati
  1. Pune
  1. Navi Mumbai
  1. Pune
  1. Vijayawada
  1. Ludhiana
  1. Bhopal
  1. Vijayawada
  1. Indore
  1. Thane
  1. Bilaspur
  1. Visakhapatnam
  1. Vasai Virar
  1. Vijayawada
  1. Visakhapatnam

 

City Population Typology wise : Top three cities

Population ≥ 4 million Population ≥ 1 million < 4 million Population ≥ 0.5 million < 1 million Population les than 0.5 million
Greater Mumbai Pune Chandigarh Tirupati
Chennai Navi Mumbai Tiruchirappalli Karimnagar
Surat Thane Amravati Bilaspur

 

 

List of Cities                                                              Annexure I

State/UT Sl. No Cities
Andaman and Nicobar 1 Portblair
Andhra Pradesh 2 Kakinada
3 Visakhapatnam
4 Tirupati
5 Vijayawada
Arunachal Pradesh 6 Itanagar
7 Pasighat
Assam 8 Guwahati
Bihar 9 Bhagalpur
10 Muzaffarpur
11 Biharsharif
12 Patna
Chandigarh 13 Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh 14 Bilaspur
15 Raipur
Dadra and Nagar Haveli 16 Silvassa
Daman and Diu 17 Diu
Goa 18 Panaji
Gujarat 19 Ahmedabad
20 Surat
21 Vadodara
22 Gandhinagar
23 Dahod
24 Rajkot
Haryana 25 Karnal
26 Faridabad
27 Gurgaon
Himachal Pradesh 28 Dharamshala
29 Shimla
Jammu & Kashmir 30 Jammu
31 Srinagar
Jharkhand 32 Ranchi
33 Dhanbad
Karnataka 34 Davanagere
35 Belagavi
36 Hubbali-Dharwad
37 Mangaluru
38 Shivamogga
39 Tumakuru
40 Bangalore
Kerala 41 Kochi
42 Thiruvananthapuram
Laksadweep 43 Kavaratti
Madhya Pradesh 44 Indore
45 Bhopal
46 Ujjain
47 Satna
48 Sagar
49 Jabalpur
50 Gwalior
Maharashtra 51 Solapur
52 Pune
53 Aurangabad
54 Kalyan-Dombivali
55 Nagpur
56 Amravati
57 Nashik
58 Thane
59 Greater Mumbai
60 Navi Mumbai
61 PimpriChinchwad
62 Vasai-Virar City
Manipur 63 Imphal
Meghalaya 64 Shillong
Mizoram 65 Aizawl
Nagaland 66 Kohima
NCT Delhi 67 Delhi
Odisha 68 Bhubaneswar
69 Rourkela
Puducherry 70 Puducherry
Punjab 71 Jalandhar
72 Ludhiana
73 Amritsar
Rajasthan 74 Udaipur
75 Ajmer
76 Jaipur
77 Kota
78 Jodhpur
Sikkim 79 Namchi
80 Gangtok
Tamil Nadu 81 Salem
82 Thanjavur
83 Vellore
84 Dindigul
85 Erode
86 Tiruchirappalli
87 Thoothukkudi
88 Tiruppur
89 Tirunelveli
90 Chennai
91 Coimbatore
92 Madurai
Telangana 93 Warangal
94 Hyderabad
95 Karim Nagar
Tripura 96 Agartala
Uttar Pradesh 97 Lucknow
98 Agra
99 Moradabad
100 Aligarh
101 Rampur
102 Rae Bareli
103 Bareilly
104 Jhansi
105 Saharanpur
106 Kanpur
107 Varanasi
108 Ghaziabad
109 Meerut
110 Allahabad
Uttarakhand 111 Dehradun