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Bhubaneswar, Ahmedabad, Raipur and Ranchi improve their ranking in the urban governance scores for India's cities, while large cities such as Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai have seen governance fail in 2016, says the annual survey of cities systems (ASICS) for 2016.The annual survey evaluates the quality of governance in 21 cities in India based on urban planning and design, urban capacities and resources, empowered and legitimate political representation and transparency, accountability and participation. The survey was done by Janaagraha Centre for citizenship and democracy, a non profit organisation. While Kerala's capital city Thiruvananthapuram retained the number one position for two consecutive years, West Bengal capital Kolkata retained its third position for two years in a row. The average ranking of the cities in India still remained between 2-1 and 4.4 much below the global benchmarks.The urban governance scores for cities such as New York is 9.8 and 9.3 for London.