Ease of Living Index 2020: Bengaluru, Shimla Finish At Top; Check Where Your City Ranks In The List

Bengaluru emerged as the best city on ease of living parameters among the 49 million-plus cities in 2020, as per the Ease of Living (EoL) report released by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday.

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Home is where the heart is! The aforementioned statement is true, however, there are certain parameters that can be established to determine which cities are better to live in based on a set of metrics. Following that government of India has released the Ease of Living (EoL) Index 2020 which determines which cities are best to live in based on various parameters.   

Karnataka capital Bengaluru, widely regarded as the “Silicon Valley of India” or Information Technology (IT) capital of India”, has emerged as the best city on ease of living parameters, thereby pushing the earlier top-ranked Maharashtra’s second-largest city Pune to the second spot.

Bengaluru emerged as the best city on ease of living parameters among the 49 million-plus cities in 2020, as per the Ease of Living (EoL) report released by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday.

Ease of Living 2020: Top 10 Cities (Million plus category)

1. Bengaluru

2. Pune

3. Ahmedabad

4. Chennai

5. Surat

6. Navi Mumbai

7. Coimbatore

8. Vadodara

9. Indore

10. Greater Mumbai

Delhi ranks at 13 while Ghaziabad and Faridabad have found a place at 30 and 40 respectively. Meerut has been ranked at 36.

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Himachal Pradesh's capital Shimla has topped the list among 62 cities having less than one million population followed by Odisha’s Bhubaneswar. Similarly, Silvassa, Kakinada, Salem, Vellore, Gandhinagar, Gurugram, Davangere and Tiruchirappalli have made it to the top 10 list in the less than million category.

Bhubaneswar ranked top in the list on the people feeling satisfied with the local administration.

Chennai, Coimbatore and Navi Mumbai rank as the first, second and third so far as the quality of life is concerned among all the 49 million-plus cities, as per the report.

Bengaluru, Delhi and Pune emerged as the top rankers in the economic ability pillar.

Panaji, Tumkuru and Vellore topped the list on the quality of life parameters among the 62 cities having less than a million population.

Tirupur, Gurugram and Kochi were ranked at the top three cities on the economic activity parameters.

Hardeep Singh Puri, the bureaucrat-turned politician, while congratulating the winners, said “EoL index ranks 111 cities on basis of 49 development indicators under the quality of life, economic-ability, sustainability & citizens’ perception of basic services”.

“EoL index ranks 111 cities on basis of 49 development indicators under the quality of life, economic-ability, sustainability & citizens’ perception of basic services. MPI evaluates enabling factors that lead to development outcomes evaluated under EoL. Congratulations to the winners!” he tweeted.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">EoL index ranks 111 cities on basis of 49 development indicators under quality of life, economic-ability, sustainability &amp; citizens’ perception of basic services. MPI evaluates enabling factors that lead to development outcomes evaluated under EoL.<br>Congratulations to the winners! <a href="https://t.co/tGQHNIHxDA" rel='nofollow'>pic.twitter.com/tGQHNIHxDA</a></p>&mdash; Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) <a href="https://twitter.com/HardeepSPuri/status/1367404380496928778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel='nofollow'>March 4, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>