The survey has compared living standards in 254 locations globally according to categories including climate, air quality, health services, housing and utilities, isolation, social network and leisure facilities, infrastructure, personal safety and political tensions.
The second slot within India is bagged by IT city, Bangalore with ranking showing significant improvement to 150 from earlier level of 179.
Termed as the financial capital of the country Mumbai has been assigned the third rank with the global ranking pegged at 158 as compared to 183. New Delhi followed Mumbai with the global ranking of 174.
However, ranking in case of New Delhi improved substantially from the earlier level of 217 to 174, up 43 notch.
The lowest ranking has been accorded to Kolkata, which showed marginal improvement in terms of ranking as it moved from 201 to 196 this time in terms of global ranking. Thus, slipping to the last position among the cities in the country.
During the last survey the last position went to New Delhi.
