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| General view of Delhi |
New Delhi: Institute for Competitiveness, an international think tank, has released
its third issue of Liveability Index 2012 for India.
However, it lags considerably on safety pillar, which can be
a reason of its downfall in the next year like it is for Delhi.
The capital of India, New Delhi even after doing exceptionally well on three
pillars has witnessed drastic dip in its rank because of its poor performance
on other pillars. It scores 49th rank on safety, 45th rank on
socio-cultural-natural environment etc.
Due to similar reasons, Mumbai also slipped from its previous 2nd position
to 3rd position but is untouched on the economic environment and still holds
the number one spot. Kolkata also did
relatively poor on the overall index, except at one or two sub-pillars such as
supporting infrastructure.
The cities, which are and will attract masses in the near
future, are Nagpur, Pune , and Nashik with 4th, 5th and 6th position
respectively on the Liveability Index.
Gurgaon rising to the 17th position from its 50th position
might appear as a surprise to many but it has actually performed well on pillars
like economic environment (3rd) and socio-cultural-natural environment (4th).
Likewise, other regions falling in the NCR, Noida and Faridabad have marked
16th and 41st position correspondingly.
Although cities such as Kochi (18th), Kozhikode (20th),
Jaipur (26th), Bhubaneswar (27th) etc. which earlier appeared as promising
cities have faded this year and have fallen extremely from their previous
positions.
Cities who are ranked in the bottom ten are Raipur, Dhanbad,
Ranchi, Guwahati, Patna, Kanpur, etc. due to their below average performance on
most of the pillars.