Chandigarh, Dehradun, Pune, Udaipur, Indore, Jabalpur and Ranchi occupy the highest ranking in Tier II cities for post-retirement living for majority of CEOs and other officials with Chandigarh and Dehradun respectively taking a lead followed by Pune, Udaipur, Indore, Jabalpur and Ranchi, according to an analysis carried out by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM).

However, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Noida, Faridabad, Sonepat and Manesar fall in the category of poor ranking as not many CEOs and other officials would prefer to stay their following superannuation from active services,  adds it’s analysis.

The analysis is carried out measuring parameters such as availability of good civic amenities like power, roads, marketing facilities, health and recreation centres including sewage and water disposal facilities as also environment, ecology and overall prevailing law & order situation in Tier II cities.

The cities taken into account for the matter of analysis consisted of Indore, Jabalpur, Chandigarh, Pune, Udaipur, Aurangabad, Surat, Coimbatore, Madurai, Kochi, Visakhapatnam, Vijawada, Mysore, Dehradun, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Faridabad, Noida, Sonepat and Lucknow.

Releasing findings of ASSOCHAM analysis, it’s Secretary General, Mr. D S Rawat said that a vast majority of well to do serving populace in government and  corporate sector have a priority for Chandigarh and Dehradun in Northern India.  Both places provide the best of civic amenities and good climatic conditions as also conducive law and order environment.

As a result, the rating of Chandigarh turns out to be the best followed by Dehradun which is a place worth living after corporates have lived their active life, serving their respective organizations. Chandigarh has taken the lead even though off late there are widespread criticism that entire Punjab and Haryana confront potable water crisis.

Pune, Udaipur, Indore, Jabalpur and Ranchi fall in the second rung with Udaipur and Pune securing equal rank followed by Ranchi, Jabalpur and Indore for corporate and others for spending their post-retirement period.

All these cities provide for an environment in which elderly couple can stay in peace although stray and isolated cases of violence and breach of law and order are reported even from most of such cities.  This, however, did not abuse their ranking for living purpose, pointed out the Secretary General ASSOCHAM.

Unfortunately Tier II cities like Ghaziabad, Meerut, Faridabad, Manesar, Sonepat and even Noida which are so nearby to Delhi are no longer preferred for settling down purpose as public perception about them continues to be adverse.

Neither stable power supply is available in these cities nor civic amenities are up to mark. Law and order of these cities are consistently subject to criticism and most importantly, the identified cities are known for criminal activities including hide outs for them.

In Gujarat, Surat is rated one of the best centre in which superannuated people would like to settle down, especially those that have entrepreneur skills as the city has potential to engage experienced people with mellowed wisdom.  Similar is the case of Aurnagabad in Maharashtra.

Mysore and Lucknow are also rated a good place to live in for elderly people but it falls in the category of 3rd ranking followed by Madurai, Kochi and Coimbatore. Livable infrastructure is available in these cities with land prices falling within the reach of most of well to do people apart from Lucknow in which land prices are much higher, concludes the ASSOCHAM analysis.