The Urban Governance Index2020 was released by the Praja Foundation. The Urban Governance Index was topped by Odisha followed by Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh and Manipur and Nagaland were at the bottom.
Objective
The idea behind building the UGI is to understand the extent of decentralisation of the Urban Governance framework and
The associated devolution of powers to the City Governments across states in the country.
Themes
The UGI is built on foundations of four themes which are divided into 13 sub-themes and consists a total of 42 indicators.
The UGI is built over four themes. These are as follows:
Significance
Stakeholders can use the index as a base to monitor implementations
UGI can be used by the states to evaluate their urban governance systems vis-à-vis other states, and in identifying the necessary reform actions that are to be taken for improvisation in the system.