Ease of living index: Bengaluru is India’s best city to live in, Pune 2nd

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Bengaluru, Mar 04, 2021:       Bengaluru has topped the list of 111 cities in the government’s ’Ease of Living Index’ on Thursday, followed by Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Surat, Navi Mumbai, Coimbatore and Vadodara.

 

According to the index released by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Shimla was ranked top in the category of cities with ’population less than million’.

New Delhi Municipal Council topped the ’Municipal Performance Index’ list in the ’less than million population’ category.

Indore was ranked top on the ’Municipal Performance Index’ list in the million-plus population category.

Bengaluru emerged as the top performer in the Million+ category, followed by Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Surat, Navi Mumbai, Coimbatore, Vadodara, Indore, and Greater Mumbai. In the Less than Million category, Shimla was ranked the highest in ease of living, followed by Bhubaneshwar, Silvassa, Kakinada, Salem, Vellore, Gandhinagar, Gurugram, Davangere, and Tiruchirappalli.

Similar to the EoLI index, the assessment framework under MPI 2020 has classified municipalities based on their population- Million+ (municipalities having over a million population) and Less than Million Population. In the Million+ category, Indore has emerged as the highest ranked municipality, followed by Surat and Bhopal. In the Less than Million category, New Delhi Municipal Council has emerged as the leader, followed by Tirupati and Gandhinagar.

List of million-plus cities ranking in 2020:

1. Bengaluru — 66.70

2. Pune — 66.27

3. Ahmedabad — 64.87

4. Chennai — 62.61

5. Surat — 61.73

6. Navi Mumbai — 61.60

7. Coimbatore — 59.72

8. Vadodara — 59.24

9. Indore — 58.58

10. Greater Mumbai — 58.23

11. Thane — 58.16

12. Kalyan Dombivali — 57.71

13. Delhi — 57.56

14. Ludhiana — 57.36

15. Visakhapatnam — 57.28

16. Pimpri Chinchwad — 57.16

17. Solapur — 56.58

18. Raipur — 56.26

19. Bhopal — 56.26

20. Rajkot — 55.94

21. Jodhpur — 55.80

22. Madurai — 55.78

23. Jaipur — 55.70

24. Hyderabad — 55.40

25. Nagpur — 55.33

26. Lucknow — 55.15

27. Varanasi — 54.67

28. Kanpur — 54.43

29. Chandigarh — 54.40

30. Ghaziabad — 54.31

31. Gwalior — 53.72

32. Prayagraj — 53.29

33. Patna — 53.26

34. Aurangabad — 52.90

35. Agra — 52.58

36. Meerut 52.41

37. Hubli Dharwad — 51.39

38. Nashik — 51.29

39. Vasai Virar — 51.26

40. Faridabad — 51.26

41. Vijayawada — 50.35

42. Ranchi — 50.31

43. Jabalpur — 49.94

44. Kota — 49.52

45. Amritsar — 49.36

46. Guwahati — 48.52

47. Bareilly — 47.73

48. Dhanbad — 46.96

49. Srinagar — 42.95

List of cities with less than a million population in 2020:

1. Shimla — 60.90

2. Bhubaneswar — 59.85

3. Silvassa — 58.43

4. Kakinada — 56.84

5. Salem — 56.40

6. Vellore — 56.38

7. Gandhinagar — 56.25

8. Gurugram — 56.00

9. Davanagere — 55.25

10. Tiruchirappalli — 55.24

11. Agartala — 55.20

12. Ajmer — 54.89

13. Puducherry — 54.78

14. Diu — 54.64

15. Karnal — 54.48

16. Panaji — 54.44

17. Tirunelveli — 54.04

18. Tiruppur — 54.03

19. Warangal — 54.01

20. Mangalore — 53.95

21. Thiruvananthapuram — 53.93

22. Karimnagar — 53.27

23. Tumakuru — 53.06

24. Erode — 52.87

25. Sagar — 52.86

26. Shivamogga — 52.86

27. Jammu — 52.49

28. Bihar Sharif — 52.42

29. Dehradun — 52.41

30. Bhagalpur — 52.19

31. Thanjavur — 52.18

32. Jalandhar — 52.18

33. Ujjain — 52.04

34. Jhansi — 51.71

35. Shillong — 51.65

36. Kavaratti — 51.58

37. Dharamshala — 51.51

38. Moradabad — 51.43

39. Kochi — 51.41

40. Rae Bareli — 51.21

41. Gangtok — 51.18

42. Port Blair — 51.13

43. Thoothukudi — 51.12

44. Saharanpur — 50.91

45. Amravati — 50.38

46. Tirupati — 50.33

47. Belagavi — 50.28

48. Udaipur — 50.25

49. Kohima — 49.87

50. Imphal — 49.64

51. Dahod — 49.40

52. Bilaspur — 49.19

53. Itanagar — 48.96

54. Rourkela — 48.89

55. Pasighat — 48.78

56. Dindigul — 48.34

57. Aizawl — 48.16

58. Aligarh — 47.15

59. Rampur — 46.88

60. Namchi — 46.46

61. Satna — 45.60

62. Muzaffarpur — 45.53

The MPI examined the sectoral performance of 111 municipalities (with Delhi being assessed separately for NDMC, and the three Municipal Corporations) across five verticals which comprise 20 sectors and 100 indicators in all totality. The five verticals under MPI are Services, Finance, Policy, Technology and Governance.

The Ease of Living Index (EoLI) is an assessment tool that evaluates the quality of life and the impact of various initiatives for urban development. It provides a comprehensive understanding of participating cities across India based on quality of life, economic-ability of a city, and its sustainability and resilience. The assessment also incorporates the residents’ view on the services provided by city administration through a Citizen Perception Survey.