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Bengaluru has been adjudged the most liveable city among the country’s 49 cities with one-million plus population, in the second and latest edition of the national Ease of Living Index (EoLI) 2020. Bengaluru catapulted from 58th rank in EoLI 2018 to the top, bumping down the former topper, Pune, to second place.
Among 62 cities with less than one million population, Shimla topped the list, followed by Bhubaneswar.
“The Bengaluru model of development of citizen-centric initiatives and delivery of services have ensured the top ranking of Bengaluru,” chief minister BS Yediyurappa’s office tweeted.
The Union housing and urban development ministry launched EoLI 2020 last year in an effort to systematically assess Indian cities themselves against global and national benchmarks. Unlike the first report of 2018, the latest ranking has divided 111 cities into two categories — with population of a millionplus and below a million. The report was released on Thursday, with the assessment exercise carried out last year just before the lockdown.