Bhubaneswar ranks 4th in Quality of Governance list: ASICS-2017 Study

ONI Bureau: After ranked in the Top 20 “Best Performing Smart Cities’’, globally, Bhubaneswar has now being bagged fourth position in India in terms of Urban Governance, a study done by the Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (ASICS)-2017.

While, Pune ranked first with a score of 5.1 out of 10, Kolkata ranked second with 4.6, Thiruvananthapuram and Bhubaneswar secured 4.6 out of 10. Likewise, Surat ranked fifth with 4.5, Delhi was ranked sixth this year with a score of 4.4 and Mumbai secured 4.1 out of 10.

The study evaluated quality of governance in cities that covered 23 major cities in India across 20 states based on 89 questions.

The cities were scored based on the quality of institutional processes, laws, policies and institutions.