Bhopal stood third in the survey conducted for the formation of Urban Governments in the cities of the country. The survey was conducted by Janaagrah Center for Citizenship and Democracy. City followed only Bangaluru and Kolkatta in providing better facilities to their citizens.
Based on four essential components, urban bodies of around 21 cities of 18 states were surveyed. Each component was surveyed based on specific questions related with the component.
With the aim to develop urban systems, 83 points related to urban planning and designs, capacity and resources, transparency, responsibilities and participation, strong and constitutional, political representation where compared. These comparative studies were based on the standards on which world class citied london and New York are measured in which the city obtained 3.7 points which was followed by Kolkatta and Thiruvananthapuram.
In the urban planning and design category the surveyed cities obtained points in the range of .6 to 3.5 in which the city obtained 2.3 points. In the capabilities and resources category city got 3.1 points, city got 5.1 in the strong and constitutional, political representation and 4.6 points were obtained by the city in the transparency, responsibilities and participation category.
Notably the highest score which city received was 7.2 in the transparency, responsibilities and participation category under Independent Urban government.
Janaagrah Center for Citizenship and Democracy has been conducting the survey for the past 11 years and this year 21 cities including the city was surveyed and based on the survey comparative study with the New York and london was done.
The jury includes former member of Planning Commission Arun Kumar, Chief of Godrej Group Adi Godrej, MP Bijyant Panda, former secretary of Indian government M Ramchandran and financial expert Ireena Vithal.