Tap water quality best in Mumbai, most unsafe in Delhi, finds Bureau of Indian Standards - Pragnya IAS Academy - News Analysis.

Tap water quality best in Mumbai, most unsafe in Delhi, finds Bureau of Indian Standards.

Mumbai tops the ranking for tap water quality while Delhi is at the bottom, with 11 out of 11 samples failing on 19 parameters.

Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday said that tap water in Delhi and several other cities did not comply with the requirements according to a study conducted by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).

“Mumbai tops ranking released by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for quality of tap water. Delhi is at the bottom, with 11 out of 11 samples failing on 19 parameters,” Paswan said while addressing a press conference here on Saturday. “We were getting complaints regarding water from all over the country. We asked for some samples of water from Delhi. The tap water from Delhi did not meet the Indian Standards. Later, we asked for water samples from all state headquarters,” he said.
The minister said that the government aims to provide clean drinking water to the people.
“Most children fall sick due to water-related diseases. The water quality standards is not mandatory. It should be made mandatory. We have also asked the chief ministers of states to order an investigation into it,” he said.
The study was conducted as per directions of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs Food & PD to check the quality of piped drinking water being supplied in the country in keeping with the objectives of the Jal Jeevan Mission.
In the first phase, samples of drinking water were drawn from various locations across Delhi and in the second phase samples were drawn from 20 other state capitals, and sent for testing as per Indian Standards.
“In the city of Delhi, all the 11 samples drawn did not comply with the requirements of the Indian Standard. The samples failed in several of the parameters. All the 10 samples drawn from Mumbai were found to comply with the requirements of the IS,” an official release said.
In Hyderabad, Bhubaneshwar, Ranchi, Raipur, Amravati, and Shimla, one or more samples did not comply with the requirements.
None of the samples drawn from Chandigarh, Thiruvananthapuram, Patna, Bhopal, Guwahati, Bengaluru, Gandhinagar, Lucknow, Jammu, Jaipur, Dehradun, Chennai, Kolkata complied with the requirements.
In the third phase, samples from the capital cities of north eastern states and SmartCities identified by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs have been drawn and are being tested. The results of the study are expected by January 15, 2020, read the release.
Paswan said that it is proposed to test samples drawn from all district headquarters of the country, and their testing is planned to be completed by 15th August 2020 in the fourth phase.


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Delhi Ranks 112 on Liveability Index, Mumbai 117 Among 140 World Cities - Pragnya IAS Academy - News Analysis.

Delhi Ranks 112 on Liveability Index, Mumbai 117 Among 140 World Cities.

The top 10 cities are Vienna, Melbourne, Osaka, Calgary, Sydney, Vancouver, Tokyo, Toronto, Copenhagen and Adelaide respectively, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report.

South Asian countries including India have fared poorly in a ranking of the world's most liveable cities topped by Austrian capital Vienna, with New Delhi figuring at 112th and Mumbai 117th position in a list of 140 cities.
Pakistan's financial capital Karachi and Bangladesh's capital Dhaka are among the world's least liveable cities in the annual Global Liveability Index released by The Economist.
War-ravaged Syria's capital Damascus is on the bottom of the list which comprises 140 cities globally.
The top 10 cities are Vienna, Melbourne, Osaka, Calgary, Sydney, Vancouver, Tokyo, Toronto, Copenhagen and Adelaide respectively, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report. It is the first time that a European city has topped the rankings of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) annual survey.
Survey editor Roxana Slavcheva said that security has improved in "several western European cities" and Vienna's top place reflects "a relative return to stability across much of Europe".
"South Asian cities rank low in @TheEIU #Liveability index. Of the 6 we cover New Delhi top (112th) then Mumbai next at 117th," Chief Economist and Asia Managing Director at EUI Simon Baptist said.
The list ranks 140 cities on a range of factors, including political and social stability, crime, education and access to healthcare.
The 10 least liveable cities are Senegal's Dakar on 131, Algeria's Algiers 132, Cameroon's Douala 133, Libya's Tripoli 134, Zimbabwe's Harare 135, Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby 136, Karachi, 137, Nigeria's Lagos 138, Dhaka 139 and Damascus is on 140, the report said.
The EIU said that crime, civil unrest, terrorism or war played a "strong role" in the ten-lowest scoring cities.
The liveability index quantifies the challenges that might be presented to an individual's lifestyle in 140 cities worldwide, and assesses which locations provide the best living conditions, the EIU said.
The survey rates cities worldwide based on 30 qualitative and quantitative criteria, which fall into five general categories: stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
The EIU, the research and analysis division of The Economist Group, describes itself as the world leader in global business intelligence.


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Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru in top 10 cities for GDP risk from terrorism - Pragnya IAS Academy - News Analysis

Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru in top 10 cities for GDP risk from terrorism.

Civil conflict and interstate conflict were the top two threats for each city, except Kolkata which has tropical windstorm as its largest threat according to Lloyd's India's City Risk Index.

Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore stood at fifth, sixth and seventh in this aspect, in the latest edition of Lloyd's India's City Risk Index (CRI).
The study further noted that threats from conflict and terrorism account for more than half (58 per cent) of the risk to India's economic output annually amounting to $9 billion.
Delhi (fifth) and Mumbai (seventh) were also in the global top 10 for GDP risk attributed to civil conflict.
"While India is fast becoming one of the most diverse and largest growing economies in the world, there is some concern that this may be undermined by a rising spate of conflict in the region," Lloyd's India country manager Shankar Garigiparthy said quoting the latest edition of reinsurer's 'City Risk Index (CRI)'.
India, he said, faces complicated and costly threats from subversive groups as well as from the complex relationship with its neighbours.
Lloyd's City Risk Index (CRI) has measured GDP risk from 22 separate threats in 279 cities across the world.
These cities were chosen as they are the key engines of global economic growth, with an estimated combined economic output of $35.4 trillion (equivalent to 41 per cent of global GDP).
The findings for India reflect the geopolitical tension in the region, it added.
Lloyd's CRI included 10 major cities in India, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune and Surat.
It said, Delhi has the largest GDP risk of all Indian cities at $ 3.5 billion and is also the highest-ranked city in South Asia. It is closely followed by Mumbai at $3.1 billion, it added.
Civil conflict and interstate conflict were the top two threats for each city, except Kolkata which has tropical windstorm as its largest threat, it said.
Other threats, which featured prominently for Indian cities include human pandemics and floods, posting an estimated $1.7 billion and $1.3 billion GDP risk for the country respectively.
For Delhi, the CRI revealed that an extreme interstate conflict scenario could cost the city $225.2 billion and that an extreme flood or civil conflict could cost $122 billion or $72.3 billion respectively.
With Delhi's overall GDP at $108.5 billion, an extreme interstate conflict or flood could cost more than the city's overall annual economic output, it added.
Extreme interstate conflict is also the costliest threat scenario for Ahmedabad and Mumbai, while an extreme civil conflict scenario would be costlier for Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Kanpur.
For Kolkata, the costliest extreme scenario is a severe earthquake, which could cost $74.4 billion, more than double the city's annual GDP of $32.6 billion. (Source: The Business Standard)


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