Mumbai offers best quality of life, Thiruvananthapuram retains second position

The Annual Survey of India's City-Systems (ASICS) survey conducted by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, had taken into account a total of 18 states. As per the report, all the 21 cities had very low scores in comparison to cities like London and New York. This would indicate that major reforms are needed in municipal governance to counteract the increasing pressure on major urban centres.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 15 March 2016.

The result is - Mumbai topped the list with Thiruvananthapuram at second position. Delhi was at fifth last year and has slipped to sixth position while Bhubaneswar, which ranked number one in the smart cities contest recently, came 18th in the list. Obviously, the standards set internally for Smart City are a far cry from international standards.
Chandigarh, one of the planned cities, remained at the bottom for the second time in a row. Hyderabad has moved up from 17 to nine within a span of one year and Kanpur, which ranked at 14 in 2014, moving up six spots last year. It is interesting to note that while the score of all Indian cities continue be in the range of 2 to 4.2 on a scale of zero to 10, cities like London and New York have scored 9.4 and 9.7 respectively.
These would tend to imply that Indian cities are grossly under-prepared to deliver a high quality of life that is sustainable in the long term.


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