- The index conceived in June 2017 aims to help cities assess their liveability vis-a-vis global and national benchmarks and encourage cities to move towards an ‘outcome-based’ approach to urban planning and management.
- It covers 111 cities that are smart city contenders, capital cities and cities with population of 1 million plus.
- It captures quality of life based on data collected from urban local bodies on four parameters, which were further broken down into 15 categories.
- The four parameters include
- institutional (governance),
- social (identity, education, health, security),
- economic ( economy, employment) and
- physical factors (waste water and solid waste management, pollution, housing/ inclusiveness, mixed land use, power and water supply, transport, public open spaces).
- Institutional and social parameters carry 25 points each, physical factors have weightage of 45 points and economic factors 5 points totalling to 100 mark scale on which cities were evaluated.
- Index is released by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).
- Andhra Pradesh has topped Ease of Living Index rankings.
