How has your city performed on the Global Liveability Index?
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Hello, hope you had a great week. This week’s newsletter talks about the Global Liveability Index and how the Indian cities have fared on the parameters.
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Indian cities performance on Global Liveability Index
Recently, the global liveability index was released by the Economic Intelligence Unit and 5 Indian cities had a mention in them for the first time ever.
The Global Liveability Index assessed the cities worldwide on the basis of 5 parameters – healthcare, stability, education, infrastructure, and culture and environment.
How have the Indian cities performed?
Bengaluru
Bengaluru was found to be the least livable among Indian cities by the index which was majorly due to the poor infrastructure. The city received a score of 46.4 (out of 100) in infrastructure, which was the lowest among all Indian cities. This parameter was measured on the basis of the quality of roads, public transportation system, stability and healthcare.
Delhi
Delhi has not performed across indexes and years. Even in the last ranking, it didn’t make it to the top 5 liveable capital cities. However, in the global liveability index of 2022 among Indian cities, New Delhi received the top rank of 140, with a liveability score of 56.5.
Ahmedabad
The city has performed well in the stability parameter which was due to the law and order of the city. In the Education and Health parameters, the city could not fare well. The city even scored the least in the culture and environment parameters. Ahmedabad got the overall rank of 143 in the index, just before Bengaluru (146).
Mumbai
The financial capital of India was at the 117th position in the liveability index last year. However, the city witnessed a downfall in its rank with the position at 141 in 2022. In all the parameters Mumbai scored between 50 to 60, with the score of the education parameter at 66.7.
Chennai
Chennai topped the education parameter with a score of 75 out of 100 along with Delhi and Bengaluru. In the healthcare parameter, which measures the quality of public and private healthcare infrastructure along with the availability of medicines, Chennai along with Delhi and Bengaluru got the highest score of 58.3 each. The city overall fared well among the Indian states with a rank of 142 in the index.
Experts’ Say
Urban expert Ashwin Mahesh said
Except for Delhi, no other city is benchmarking itself against the rest of the world. Delhi to some extent is trying to do something on the scale that other global cities are doing. While Bengaluru is working in clusters, Delhi is building networks. To put it in perspective, the government here needs to commit itself to make dramatic change happen.
Ashwin Mahesh, Urban Expert and Social Technologist said,
Bengaluru truly lacked resources in terms of public health, education, and infrastructure. Raising concerns over mismanagement of COVID-19 pandemic, he said that among 198 wards in Bengaluru city limits, more than half did not have public health care centres.
(Sources: Quint, Economic Times, The New Indian Express, Economist Intelligence Unit, Times Now, Federal)
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