Ease Of Living Index

About:

• Objective: The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has launched the index to serve as a common minimum framework for cities to evaluate themselves.
  
  
• Parameters: Cities have been ranked on 15 categories which have been grouped under four pillars of urban development, namely
  
  

• Methodology:
  • A city’s ranking reflects its ability to provide data, as well as its actual performance on four different parameters.
    
    
  • Thus a city can be ranked poor inspite of having all the facilities, due to its inability to provide data.
    
    
  
  
  
• Ranking of cities:
  
  

• The other cities in the top 10 include Tirupati, Chandigarh, Thane, Raipur, Indore, Vijayawada and Bhopal.
  
  
• New Delhi is ranked 65, while Chennai is ranked 14. Kolkata did not participate in the survey.
  
  

• Relative benchmarks: To ensure that the assessment offers a level playing field to all cities, relative benchmarks are assigned for 22 of the 78 indicators in which cities are evaluated against their comparable peers, defined by the population. Cities were classified into 4 categories namely –