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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) plans to conduct an 'Annual Assessment of Liveability Standards in Cities', which will involve yearly survey and compilation of a large number of datasets across the various indicators. There are 79 indicators that have been organised in 15 distinct 'categories' covering aspects such as governance, health and education, safety, identity and culture, economy, pollution, mixed land use and compactness, open spaces, urban mobility and various core urban services, and contribute to the 4 essential pillars of comprehensive development, namely, institutional, social, economic and physical. The Ministry has developed a set of liveability standards in cities which was launched in June 2017 with an objective of developing these standards to generate a liveability index and rate cities against these standards to facilitate a competitive environment amongst cities and result in systematic improvement in the quality of life of citizens.