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Bengaluru is the least livable city in India, says Global Livability Index 2022

Karnataka's capital Bengaluru is the worst livable city in India, according to the Global Livability Index 2022.

Published Jul 05, 2022 | 6:17 PM ⚊UpdatedJul 23, 2022 | 3:48 PM

Bengaluru's infrastructure ranked worst in the country (Representative Image : Creative commons)

Bengaluru's infrastructure was ranked worst in the country (Representative Image, Creative Commons)

The country’s dream cities — including Silicon Valley of India Bengaluru, which topped the Union government’s Ease of Living Index last year — are not the best places to live in the world, according to the Global Livability Index 2022 released on 24 June.

The index is released every year by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Indian cities’ ranks

As per the index, all five Indian cities on the list stood only between 140 and 146 among the 173 the EIU has surveyed globally.

While the index ranked New Delhi (140) as the best of the Indian cities, Mumbai (141), Chennai (142), Ahmedabad (143), and Bengaluru (146) were not ranked far from it.

The livability index is calculated on a scored of 100 points, and Bengaluru scored only 54.4 points while New Delhi was not much ahead at 56.5 points.

It was followed by Mumbai (56.2), Chennai (55.8), and Ahmedabad (55.7).

It is to be noted that this is the first time the EIU included Bengaluru, Chennai, and Ahmedabad in the list.

Methodology

The EIU, the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, determines the livability index based on five factors: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure.

A city has to score the maximum points on stability and in the culture and environment factor, as these two sections have the highest weightage of 25 percent each.

Infrastructure and healthcare have 20-percent weightage each, while education has a weightage of 10 percent.

Why Bengaluru ranks low

Bengaluru was declared the most livable city by Union Urban Development Ministry through its “Ease of Living” index in March 2021.

Surprisingly, however, Bengaluru’s infrastructure was equal to Nigeria’s Lagos, ranked as the third-least livable city in the world, according to the EIU livability index.

The city failed to score well due to poor infrastructure, and scored only 46.4 out of 100 in the infrastructure section, which pulled down its rank.

The infrastructure factor in the index is scored based on the availability of good housing and water facilities, the quality of roads, international linkage, telecommunication, energy provision, and the public transport system.