Municipal Performance Index (MPI) 2020

Municipal Performance Index (MPI) 2020

Subject: Reports and indices

Context: The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has emerged as the best municipality among cities and union territories with a population of less than a million in the country as part of MPI,2020 from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).

Concept:

• NDMC took a quantum jump from 65^th in 2019.
• Several IT-based initiatives for strengthening e-governance and m-governance to improve under services and governance verticals were major driver of this makeover.
• In the Million+ category, Indore has emerged as the highest ranked municipality, followed by Surat and Bhopal.
• It is released by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).

About MPI

• The Municipal Performance Index (MPI) was launched as an accompaniment to the Ease of Living Index. It was launched to expand scope for the EoLI (Ease of Living Index) framework in order to make it more robust
• The Municipal Performance Index captures the enabling input parameters
• It seeks to give insight into granular understanding of a municipalities’ functionalities and the extent of their development and capabilities.It seeks to simplify and evaluate the complexities in local governance practice and promote the ethos of transparency and accountability
• It is a framework to assess and analyse the performance of Indian Municipalities based on their defined set of functions.
• This assesses the performance of 114 cities across 5 pillars, 20 categories and 99 indicators. These 5 pillars are: Services, Finance, Policy, Technology and Governance
• Generate information to guide evidence-based policy making
• Catalyze action to achieve broader developmental outcomes including the Sustainable Development Goals
• Assess and compare the outcomes achieved by municipal bodies with given set of resources
• Give citizens an insight into the functioning of local bodies and build a dialogue between the stakeholders