Chennai tops liveability index, Delhi loses out on safety pillar

Thursday, December 27, 2012
General view of Delhi 
New Delhi: Institute for Competitiveness, an international think tank, has released its third issue of Liveability Index 2012 for India.

Chennai with its strong presence in planned environment and by being in the top five slot of most of the pillars such as education, health & medical standards and socio-cultural-natural environment has scored the number one position in the Index.

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.
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