Urban governance survey: Here is why Pune beat Delhi, Bengaluru fared worst

Indian cities could hardly score above 5, with Pune barely touching the 5.1 margin, compared to global megacities such as New York and London, which scored 8.8 each

Pune has emerged as the best city, and Bengaluru the worst, in terms of quality of urban governance, according to a 23-city survey conducted by a Bengaluru-based non-profit organisation Janaagraha. 

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy released the 5th edition of its Annual Survey of India’s City-systems (ASICS) report which shows Pune as having scored 5.1 on a scale of 10, followed by Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhubaneswar and Surat. Delhi moved three spots up to the sixth place this year, against ninth in the 2016 survey. Mumbai’s ranking fell from sixth in 2016 to ninth in 2017.