Guwahati and Shillong in the Lowest Ranks Among India’s Worst places to Live

Guwahati and Shillong in the Lowest Ranks Among India’s Worst places to Live

Ease of Living Index 2018

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Aug 14: Northeast’s cities are among India’s worst places to live in.

Majority of NE cities, including Guwahati and Shillong, have found the lowest positions in the Centre’s Ease of Living Index 2018. Under the Ease of Living Index exercise, the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry assessed the quality of life and living in 111 cities. The report on this was released in New Delhi on Monday.

Guwahati, the gateway to Northeast, has ranked 85 out of the 111 cities with a mere score of 29.03 out of 100. Shillong, considered as the Scotland of East, has been placed in 98th position. Aizawl has ranked in 84th, Imphal at 91st, Agartala in 93rd, Pasighat and Itanagar in 105th & 106th respectively.

Kohima in Nagaland has ranked in 110th as being the second worst city after Rampur in Uttar Pradesh.

The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, while conducting the survey, studied quality of life in each city based on several parameters, including institutional (governance), social (identity, education, health, security), economic (economy, employment) and physical (waste water and solid waste management, pollution, housing/ inclusiveness, mixed land use, power and water supply, transport, public open spaces) factors.

Each parameter carries a weightage totaling 100 marks — institutional (25), social (25), physical (45) and economic (5). Based on this, the cities are given an overall rank.

On other hand Pune has ranked first with 58.11 points out of 100 while Navi Mumbai has surfaced as the second preferred with a score of 58.02 in terms of ‘livability’. The top 8 cities that follow are Greater Mumbai (57.78), Tirupati (57.52), Chandigarh (53.16), Thane (52.27), Raipur (50.58), Indore (50.16), Vijaywada (49.27) and Bhopal (49.11).

The Ease of Living Index is fundamentally tied to physical amenities such as water supply, solid waste management, parks and green space etc; for others it relates to cultural offerings, opportunities, economic dynamism or safety.

Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister of State (Independent charge), who released the index on Monday, said, “This exercise has made us deal with a reality where you are dependent on a large number of local bodies for data. Many people consider this to be intrusive. But this will have a very positive demonstrative and lighthouse effect where people will realize that providing data will be the new normal in order for them to be able to enjoy a greater ease of living.”

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