Lucknow: The state’s capital performance was ranked ‘satisfactory’ by citizens with Lucknow claiming 26th spot out of 49 cities under the category of population above 10 lakhs in Ease of Living (EoL) survey. However, citizens are not very happy with services provided by Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) in the city.
As per the survey report issued by Union ministry of housing and urban affairs, Lucknow secured 55.1 out of marks in EoL survey coming under the green category ‘Satisfactory’. However, citizens gave two ‘Need improvement’ and one ‘Poor’ remark to municipal corporation for their services.
In EoL survey, there were total of four parameters including Quality of life, Economic Ability, Citizens Perception and Sustainability.
The parameter ”Quality of Life’ evaluates overall safety and security, affordable healthcare, recreational facilities, livelihood opportunities and access to financial services. Lucknow received 51.3/100 (Satisfactory) under the parametre.
Similarly in citizens perception, several questions relating to affordable and quality education, quality of drinking water supply, adequacy of public transport, affordable electricity, quality of air and overall cleanliness were positively answered by the citizens giving Lucknow highest 82.4/100 marks (Satisfactory).
The criteria of Sustainability involved a poll asking citizens to tell about life expectancy of services provided by government organizations. Lucknow was awarded 54.8/100 (Satisfactory) under the category. However, citizens of Lucknow rated their economic ability or purchasing power very low resulting in city receiving only 10.05/100 (Poor) under the parameter.
The performance of LMC can be termed poor looking at the numbers received by the civic body. LMC was ranked 33rd out of total 49 cities participating above 10 lakh population category.
Civic body received 58.5/100 (Satisfactory) under ‘Finance’ category, which meant citizens were happy with the investment conducted by municipal corporation in respective projects. Similarly the municipal corporation, received 58.2/100 (Satisfactory) under the category of “planning’ evaluating about the execution of projects done by the civic body.
However, as soon as the execution of projects is completed and its time to provide the ‘Services’, locals have decreased the positive response giving only about 48.3/100 (Need improvement) to the civic body. The numbers have also been decreased under the parametre of ‘Governance’ with LMC scoring about 31.02/100 (Need Improvement). While, poor remark has been received by the municipal corporation under the category of ‘Technology’ getting about 23.8/100 marks (Poor)
Municipal commissioner and CEO Smart City Limited Ajay Dwivedi said, “I have not seen the results as of now, but we will analyse the outcome and work to improve on those areas which we are lacking.”
