Ease of Living Index: Surat ranked 19, Ahmedabad 23, Vadodara 36, Gandhinagar 39
August 14, 2018
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
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Pillar Wise: Top ten cities
Institutional | Social | Economic | Physical |
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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 |
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