Lok Sabha Question No. 2074 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-04
Subject: Rank of Cities
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shashi Tharoor

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2074

## TO BE ANSWERED ON JULY 04, 2019

## RANK OF CITIES

No. 2074.       DR. SHASHI THAROOR:

Will  the  Minister  of  HOUSING  AND  URBAN  AFFAIRS  be  pleased  to state :

- (a) the  list  of  indicators  used  to  rank  cities  under  the  Ease  of  Living Index;
- (b) whether deliberations were held for choosing these indicators and their  weight  under  the  Ease  of  Living  Index  and  if  so,  the  details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  reviewed  any  of  the  indicators  and their  weight  in  the  Ease  of  Living  Index  recently  and  if  so,  the
- details thereof;
- (d) whether any city has failed to submit or has submitted incomplete data for any of the indicators and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) whether the Government has taken any steps to encourage cities to generate data for all the indicators in the index and if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI HARDEEP SINGH PURI)

- (a): The list of indicators for ranking cities under the Ease of Living
- Index 2019 is attached at Annex.

(b) & (c) : The Assessment Framework for Ease of Living (EoL) 2019 has been adopted after several rounds of consultations with municipalities, academicians,  experts,  stakeholder  Ministries/Departments  and  other key  stakeholders.  Further,  several  informal  discussions  were  held  with practitioners and experts. The Assessment Framework was shared with NITI  Aayog  for  their  inputs.  In  addition,  consultations  were  held  with stakeholders Ministries / Departments to better understand availability of data  under  their  respective  domains vis.  health,  education,  economy, crime, pollution,  power etc. These  Ministries /  Departments  were requested to nominate a nodal person for this exercise. Moreover, draft indicators  were  also  shared  with  the  Ministry  of  Human  Resource Development, Ministry of Health &  Family Welfare, Ministry  of  Finance, Ministry of Power and Central Pollution Control Board for their inputs/feedback. A consultation was held with sector experts, municipal commissioners, academicians and other stakeholders in the Ministry to discuss  the  indicator  framework  and  methodology  for  EoL  2019  to develop a comprehensive and robust strategy going forward. The Ministry also  requested  comments  from  all  participating  cities  on  draft  set  of indicators for evaluation of EoL.

Based  on  deliberations  and  consultations,  the  indicators  and  their weights were reviewed by the Ministry, and the Assessment Framework has  been  updated  accordingly.  Indicators  and  weightage  for  Ease  of Living 2018 is available in the methodology document available online at -https://easeofliving.niua.org/assets/upload/pdfs/ease-of-livingmethodology.pdf.  Indicators  and  weightage  for  Ease  of  Living  2019  is available online at https://smartnet.niua.org/eol19/pdf/EOL-2019Completed-Version.pdf

(d): The process of data collection is ongoing.

(e):  The  Ministry  has  taken steps to encourage cities to generate data for  all  the  indicators  in  the  index  through  four  regional  workshops.  A central help desk has also been set up in the Ministry to assist the cities.

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## LSUQ No. 2074  Ease of Living Index

## Annex

|   No | Indicators                                                                                                               |
|------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|    1 | 1.1.1. Household Expenditure on Education                                                                                |
|    2 | 1.1.2. Literacy Rate                                                                                                     |
|    3 | 1.1.3. Pupil-Teacher Ratio at the Primary Level                                                                          |
|    4 | 1.1.4. Drop Out Rate at Primary Level                                                                                    |
|    5 | 1.1.5. Pupil-Teacher Ratio at the Upper-Primary Level                                                                    |
|    6 | 1.1.6. Drop Out Rate at the Upper-Primary Level                                                                          |
|    7 | 1.1.7. Percentage of schools with access to digital education                                                            |
|    8 | 1.1.8. Percentage of Professionally Trained Teachers                                                                     |
|    9 | 1.1.9. Nation Achievement Survey Score                                                                                   |
|   10 | 1.2.1. Household expenditure on health                                                                                   |
|   11 | 1.2.2. Availability of healthcare professionals                                                                          |
|   12 | 1.2.3. Accredited public health facilities                                                                               |
|   13 | 1.2.4. Availability of Hospital Beds                                                                                     |
|   14 | 1.2.5. Prevalence of diseases                                                                                            |
|   15 | 1.3.1. Households with electrical connections                                                                            |
|   16 | 1.3.2. Average length of electrical interruptions                                                                        |
|   17 | 1.3.3. Beneficiaries Under PMAY                                                                                          |
|   18 | 1.3.4. Slum Population                                                                                                   |
|   19 | 1.4.1. Deviation of total water supplied from service-level benchmark                                                    |
|   20 | 1.4.2. Households with piped water supply                                                                                |
|   21 | 1.4.3. Swachh Survekshan score                                                                                           |
|   22 | 1.4.4. Amount of waste water treated                                                                                     |
|   23 | 1.4.5. Households connected to sewerage network                                                                          |
|   24 | 1.5.1. Availability of public transport                                                                                  |
|   25 | 1.5.2. Transport related fatalities                                                                                      |
|   26 | 1.5.3. Road Infrastructure                                                                                               |
|   27 | 1.6.1. Prevalence of Violent Crime                                                                                       |
|   28 | 1.6.2. Extent of crime recorded against women                                                                            |
|   29 | 1.6.3. Extent of crime recorded against children                                                                         |
|   30 | 1.6.4. Extent of crime recorded against elderly                                                                          |
|   31 | 1.7.1. Average share of the total area of cities that is open space for public use                                       |
|   32 | 1.7.2. Availability of: a. Music, Dance and Drama Centre; b. Parks; c. Recreational Club d. Restaurants; e. Cinema Halls |
|   33 | 2.1.1. Traded Clusters                                                                                                   |
|   34 | 2.2.1. Cluster Strength                                                                                                  |
|   35 | 2.2.2. Credit Availability                                                                                               |
|   36 | 2.2.3. Number of Incubation Centres / Skill Development centres                                                          |

|   No | Indicators                                                                 |
|------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   37 | 2.3.1. Inequality Index based on consumption expenditure                   |
|   38 | 3.1.1. Water Quality                                                       |
|   39 | 3.1.2. Total Tree Cover                                                    |
|   40 | 3.1.3. Households using clean fuel for cooking                             |
|   41 | 3.1.4. Hazardous waste generation                                          |
|   42 | 3.1.5. Air quality index                                                   |
|   43 | 3.2.1. Availability of Green Spaces                                        |
|   44 | 3.2.2. Does the city incentivise green buildings? (Y/N)                    |
|   45 | 3.2.2. Green Buildings                                                     |
|   46 | 3.3.1. Energy Requirement vs Energy Supplied                               |
|   47 | 3.3.2. Energy generated from renewable sources                             |
|   48 | 3.3.3. Number of Energy Parks                                              |
|   49 | 3.4.1. Has the city implemented local disaster reduction strategies? (Y/N) |
|   50 | 3.4.2. Number of Deaths due to disasters                                   |

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