The recently announced Ease of Living Index 2020 rankings for cities indicates that Bengaluru and Pune are the most “livable” among larger cities, while Shimla and Bhubaneswar topped the charts among the smaller cities. Predictably, the municipal corporations that performed better were also that ranked well on cleanliness━Indore and Surat among the larger cities, and New Delhi and Tirupati among the smaller ones.
A total of 111 cities participated in the exercise when the assessment was conducted last year by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Bengaluru emerged as the best city on ease of living parameters with an index score of 66.70 among Indian cities with a population of more than a million. Pushing last year’s top-ranked city, Pune, to a second position, Bengaluru jumped the charts from its distant previous position at 58 in 2018.
Ease of living was the lowest in Bareilly (UP), Dhanbad (Jharkhand), and Srinagar (J&K).
Among cities with population of less than a million, Shimla was ranked first followed by Bhubaneswar.
Muzaffarpur in Bihar had the lowest score.
Here are the tables of the top 10 rankings in each category:
Top 10 livable cities with population over one million in 2020
- Bengaluru 66.70
- Pune 66.27
- Ahmedabad 64.87
- Chennai 62.61
- Surat 61.73
- Navi Mumbai 61.60
- Coimbatore 59.72
- Vadodara 59.24
- Indore 58.58
- Greater Mumbai 58.23
Top 10 livable cities with population of less than one million in 2020
- Shimla 60.90
- Bhubaneswar 59.85
- Silvassa 58.43
- Kakinada 56.84
- Salem 56.40
- Vellore 56.38
- Gandhinagar 56.25
- Gurugram 56.00
- Davanagere 55.25
- Tiruchirappalli 55.24
10 best performing municipalities of cities with population of more than one million in 2020
- Indore 66.08
- Surat 60.82
- Bhopal 59.04
- Pimpri Chinchwad 59.00
- Pune 58.79
- Ahmedabad 57.60
- Raipur 54.98
- Greater Mumbai 54.36
- Visakhapatnam 52.77
- Vadodara 52.68
10 best performing municipalities of cities with population of less than 1 million in 2020
- New Delhi 52.92
- Tirupati 51.69
- Gandhinagar 51.59
- Karnal 51.39
- Salem 49.04
- Tiruppur 48.92
- Bilaspur 47.99
- Udaipur 47.77
- Jhansi 47.04
- Tirunelveli 47.02
