CONTENTS
Undertaking i
Acknowledgments v
Table of contents vii
List of figures x
List of tables xii
1 Introduction .1
1.1 Summary .1
1.2 Directed Research Project 1
1.3 Aim of the Research 1
1.4 Objectives of the Research 1
1.5 Methodology 2
1.6 Scope of Research 3
1.7 Limitation of Research 3
2 Literature Review 5
2.1 Concept of Liveability 5
2.1.1 Quality of Life 5
2.1.2 Standard of Living 5
2.1.3 Liveability 5
2.2 Global Perspective of Liveability Rankings: History and Overview 6
2.2.1 Economist Intelligence Unit: Global Liveability Index 7
2.2.2 Mercer Consulting Human Resources: Quality of Living Survey 8
2.2.3 Ranking of Indian Cities in Global Liveability Index 8
2.3 Need of Liveability in India 10
2.3.1 Massive Urbanization 10
2.3.2 Large City Systems 11
2.3.3 Challenges of Urbanization and Service Backlog leading to poor quality of life 12
2.3.4 Challenges in understanding Idea of Liveability 15
3 Understanding Liveability Standards by Government of India 17
3.1 Overview: Correlation in Pillars, Categories and Indicators 17
3.2 Consideration of Key Criteria’s for computation of Liveability Standards 23
3.2.1 Benchmarking based on Cities Size Classification 23
3.2.2 Calculation based on Weightage (Core and Supporting Indicators) 24
3.3 On field Methodology of Implementation Strategies | Review of Implementation Strategy 24
4 Field Visit and Stakeholder Consultation 25
4.1 State of Data Readiness in Cities 26
4.2 Key Findings 26
4.2.1 Comparison of Indian Liveability Index with Global Ranking Systems 26
4.2.2 Based on Field Visit and Stakeholder Consultation 27
5 Critical Analysis of Indicators in Liveability Standards by Government of India 29
5.1 Multiple Data Owners 29
6 Identification of Key Issues 31
7 Framework for assessment of data reliability for liveability indicator 37
7.1 Approach and Methodology for Assessment 38
7.2 Rating of data for Reliability Framework for 79 Indicators 41
7.3 Outcome Based on Assessment 45
7.3.1 Relevance 47
7.3.2 Credibility 48
Understanding the concept of City Liveability Index in the context of Indian Cities
7.3.3 Timeliness 50
7.3.4 Accessibility 51
7.3.5 Interpretability 52
7.3.6 Cumulative of all the 5 parameters 52
8 Recommendation 55
9 Conclusion with future research directions 57
10 References 58