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How Clean Are India's IT Hubs?

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For expats, one of the major parameters of a city's attractiveness as a
livable city in a country like India is its cleanliness. So, how clean

are the country's href="http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2007/107102908.asp">hottest

IT destinations?






Going by the rating of cities under the National Urban Sanitation
Policy annouced recently, the hottest IT destination, href="http://www.globalservicesmedia.com/Destinations/Global-Dynamics/Bangalore,-India/25/34/910/general200910157555">Bangalore

has managed a fairly good rating. With an overall score of 53.637, it

stands 12th among the 423 cities and towns covered by the survey.

Chennai and Noida follow closely at 13th and 17th respectively.

 






Chandigrah, which has come up as a tier two city as far as IT
investment is concerned, has kept its reputation of being a clean city

and has topped the list, followed by Mysore, which houses the Infosys

Leadership Instutute and smaller delivery centers of some IT and BPO

firms. Navi Mumbai, which has a fair number of IT and BPO facilities,

stands at an impressive No 11.  






Kolkata, which in recent years has become a hot IT destination, also
scores well, with an overall rank of 25th. SAS Nagar (Mohali), where

most of the IT companies in the Chandigrah area are located, comes

close at No 28.






Surprisingly, href="http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/Innovator/2006/106032301.asp">Pune,
otherwise known to be a clean city, has ranked a lowly 65th, but is

still way ahead of Gurgaon--the BPO capital of India--which stands at

No 87. href="http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2007/107102901.asp">Vishakhapatnam

which has a few BPO facilities is ranked 91 while href="http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2007/107102906.asp">Bhubaneswar,

the hottest emerging IT destination is at 124, against its reputation

as a clean city. Bhubaneswar, incidentally, was designed by the same

architect, who designed Chandigarh.






If you are missing a name, rest assured that it is not your mistake.
Delhi--beyond the NDMC area (home mostly to members of

 parliament and senior government officials) and Delhi

Cantonment--ranks a lowly 168, two notches below Shimoga, a small town

where href="http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2010/110050601.asp">Xchanging,

the world's No 1 BPO company

has established its BPO facility recently. Even the literate Kerala's

IT hubs--Thiruvanantapuran and href="http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2007/107102905.asp">Kochi--rank

73 and 81 respectively.






For the record, Surat stands at No 3, while the NDMC and Delhi Cantt
area of Delhi stand at No 4 and No 5, after Chandigarh and Mysore.

Trichy, Jamshedpur, Mangalore, Rajkot, and Kanpur take the next five

positions.



 


Rating of Cities under the National Urban Sanitation Policy is the part
of the exercise started last year to create awareness about

sanitation.  The exercise of rating of Cities covers all major

cities of the country and almost 72 percent of India’s total

urban population. The country was divided into five zones for the

purpose- North; South; West; East and North East and Central and South

Central. Each city has been scored on 19 indicators which are divided

into three categories: Output (50 points), Process (30 points) and

Outcome (20 points). The rating was carried out by three agencies i.e

AC Nielsen-ORG Marg, Development and Research Services (DRS) and CEPT

University.




















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