After beating London and becoming the world’s fastest Growing tech hub Bengaluru has done it again. Of all the Indian cities, where the number of our population is more than a million, Bengaluru has been ranked as the most liveable city in India. According to the government’s “Ease of Living Index” Bengaluru and Shimla are ranked at No. 1. The IT capital of India has made its way to the top by pushing the earlier top ranker Pune to second place, while bagging the third place is Ahmedabad among 111 other cities.
According to a press release by PIB Bengaluru came out as the top performer in the Million+ category, which means the category of population more than million, followed by Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Surat, Navi Mumbai, Coimbatore, Vadodara, Indore, and Greater Mumbai.
Looking at the low scorers, the lowest ease of living is in Bareilly, Dhanbad and Srinagar.
As per the index released by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, in the category of less than million population Shimla ranked at No. 1.
After Shimla, the second place goes to Bhubaneshwar and third to Silvassa followed by Kakinada, Salem, Vellore, Gandhinagar, Gurgaon, Davangere and Tiruchirapalli.
The low rank holder in this category is Muzaffarpur out of 62 cities.
Ranking of cities under the category of million-plus population 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
- Thane 58.16
- Kalyan Dombivali 57.71
- Delhi 57.56
- Ludhiana 57.36
- Visakhapatnam 57.28
- Pimpri Chinchwad 57.16
- Solapur 56.58
- Raipur 56.26
- Bhopal 56.26
- Rajkot 55.94
- Jodhpur 55.80
- Madurai 55.78
- Jaipur 55.70
- Hyderabad 55.40
- Nagpur 55.33
- Lucknow 55.15
- Varanasi 54.67
- Kanpur 54.43
- Chandigarh 54.40
- Ghaziabad 54.31
- Gwalior 53.72
- Prayagraj 53.29
- Patna 53.26
- Aurangabad 52.90
- Agra 52.58
- Meerut 52.41
- Hubli Dharwad 51.39
- Nashik 51.29
- Vasai Virar 51.26
- Faridabad 51.26
- Vijayawada 50.35
- Ranchi 50.31
- Jabalpur 49.94
- Kota 49.52
- Amritsar 49.36
- Guwahati 48.52
- Bareilly 47.73
- Dhanbad 46.96
- Srinagar 42.95
Ranking of cities under the category of less than million population 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
- Agartala 55.20
- Ajmer 54.89
- Puducherry 54.78
- Diu 54.64
- Karnal 54.48
- Panaji 54.44
- Tirunelveli 54.04
- Tiruppur 54.03
- Warangal 54.01
- Mangalore 53.95
- Thiruvananthapuram 53.93
- Karimnagar 53.27
- Tumakuru 53.06
- Erode 52.87
- Sagar 52.86
- Shivamogga 52.86
- Jammu 52.49
- Bihar Sharif 52.42
- Dehradun 52.41
- Bhagalpur 52.19
- Thanjavur 52.18
- Jalandhar 52.18
- Ujjain 52.04
- Jhansi 51.71
- Shillong 51.65
- Kavaratti 51.58
- Dharamshala 51.51
- Moradabad 51.43
- Kochi 51.41
- Rae Bareli 51.21
- Gangtok 51.18
- Port Blair 51.13
- Thoothukudi 51.12
- Saharanpur 50.91
- Amravati 50.38
- Tirupati 50.33
- Belagavi 50.28
- Udaipur 50.25
- Kohima 49.87
- Imphal 49.64
- Dahod 49.40
- Bilaspur 49.19
- Itanagar 48.96
- Rourkela 48.89
- Pasighat 48.78
- Dindigul 48.34
- Aizawl 48.16
- Aligarh 47.15
- Rampur 46.88
- Namchi 46.46
- Satna 45.60
- Muzaffarpur 45.53
Taking a look in the Municipal Performance Index, New Delhi ranks first.
According to the list New Delhi Municipal Council topped the ”Municipal Performance Index” in the category of ”less than a million” population. Others that follow are Triputi, Gandhinagar, Karnal, Salem, Tiruppur, Bilaspur, Udaipur, Jhansi and Tirunelveli.
Indore ranked No. 1 in the Municipal Performance Index in the category of more than a million population. Following Indore the other cities are Surat came second, followed by Bhopal, Pimpri Chinchawad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Raipur, Greater Mumbai, Visakhapatnam and Vadodara.
