LUCKNOW: After a drubbing in all Swachh Bharat Surveys, UP cities are set to contest for another round of evaluation launched by the Centre. Called Cities’ Livability Assessment, this will evaluate India’s 116 prominent cities on parameters like availability of urban infrastructure, housing, supply and sewerage network, GDP, transport, electricity, crisis management, health and education facilities, describing the living standard of its citizens.
In UP, 14 cities have been selected for the All India Ranking of Livability Indices. These are Allahabad, Aligarh, Kanpur, Lucknow, Jhansi, Varanasi, Agra, Bareilly, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Rae
Bareli and
Rampur. Notably, all these cities were recommended by the government for
Smart City Mission also but only 10 could make it to the final list.
Municipal bodies in these cities are nodal agencies for this survey. They will collect data from various government departments, looking after these facilities and will submit the complete report on these parameters to the Centre by April 16. In Lucknow, the municipal corporation has already sent a note to departments like LDA, Jal Sansthan, Lucknow Metro, UPSRTC, DUDA, BSA, CMO, traffic police and
Lesa to provide the information. Additional municipal commissioner
PK Srivastava said, “This is the first time that such a survey is taking place across the country. A meeting will be held with all departments on Saturday to represent Lucknow in the best possible way.”
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