A list is announced of more than one million population and less than one million population in index 2020. And a ranking is given to all cities. There are 111 cities that took part in this ranking competition. And this was organized last year.
Among all the cities in India, with a population of more than one million, Bengaluru has come at top rank as the best city to live a comfortable life. And the IT capital of India, Pune has got second place in ranking. Meanwhile Ahmedabad has gotten third place in 111 cities.
A PIB press release said, “Bengaluru came out as the top performer in the Million+ group [in category of ‘population more than million], followed by Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Surat, Navi Mumbai, Coimbatore, Vadodara, Indore, and Greater Mumbai,”.
The existence of comfort list, Bareilly, Dhanbad and The Srinagar got lowest rank.
In downtown with residents of less than million, Shimla got the topmost rank pursued by the Bhubaneswar; meanwhile the city of Bihar Muzaffarpur got the lowest rank, according to the comfort of living list of 2020. It has been organized by the Ministry of Urban Affairs.
In the existence of comfort, there took part in 111 cities and it has been organized in last year 2020. The ranking has decided according to the population in cities of more than one million and population with less than one million, in the list of ease of living.
“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,” the release said.
It further included: “It makes available a wide-ranging understanding of contributing cities from corner to corner in India based on the excellence 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.”
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
MUNICIPAL PERFORMANCE INDEX (MPI)
Apart from this, the comfort of living list also announced the final list of the ranking of Municipal Performance Index (MPI). In the millions kind, Indore is the top most city and after this Surat and Bhopal respectively. And in the less than million list New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) comes out as the leader and the next are Tirupati and Gandhinagar.
“The MPI observed the sectoral presentation of 111 municipalities (with Delhi being assessed independently for NDMC, and the three Municipal corporations) diagonally five verticals which contain 20 sectors and 100 displays in all totality. The five verticals below MPI are Services, Finance, Policy, Technology and Governance,” the Centre said in a bureaucrat discharge.
