[ecis2016.org] Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri has announced the commencement of the country’s first-ever ‘Livability Index’, to rank 116 cities
The Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has decided to assess the livability standard of 116 Indian cities, through the country’s first ‘Livability Index’. This will include the identified Smart Cities and several other cities with a population of over one million,” housing and urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, on January 19, 2018.
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Among the cities to be assessed for the ‘Livability Index’, include Delhi’s three municipal corporations, Bengaluru (Karnataka), Kochi (Kerala), Ghaziabad, Meerut, Varanasi, Allahabad and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and Faridabad in Haryana. An official said that the result of the exercise will be announced in June, 2018.
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The cities will be assessed on 15 core parameters like governance, social infrastructure, education, employment, health and safety and security. The ‘Livability Index’ will also take into account physical infrastructure like housing, open spaces, land use, energy and water availability, solid waste management and pollution, among others.
The ministry, through an international bidding process under a World Bank-funded programme, has selected ‘IPSOS Research Pvt Ltd’ in consortium with the ‘Athena Infonomics India Pvt Ltd’ and ‘Economist Group Ltd’, for the assessment of the livability indices in 116 cities, according a release.
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