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{{short description|City ranking system used in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

The '''classification of Indian cities''' is a ranking system used by the [[Government of India]] to allocate House Rent Allowance (HRA) to public servants employed in cities in [[India]]. HRA is also used by the [[Indian Revenue Service]] (IRS) to provide [[income tax in India|income tax]] exemptions. Cities are classified on the basis of their population, as recommended by the Sixth Central Pay Finance.<ref>accessdate=13 January 2013 {{clarify|date=August 2019}}</ref> Under the latest HRA city ranking scheme, most popular media and culture considers only tier-X cities to be metropolitan in nature. These eight cities are considered India's "metros".

==Current classification==
Under the recommendation of the Seventh Central Pay Commission, the CCA classification was abolished in 2008. The earlier HRA classification of cities was changed from A-1 to X; A, B-1, and B-2 to Y; and C and unclassified cities to Z.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://doe.gov.in/sites/default/files/21-07-2015.pdf|title=Classification of Indian Cities, Office Memorandum, Government of India,|website=doe.gov.in}}</ref><ref name=6th_da>{{cite web|title=Recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission – Decision of Government relating to grant of Dearness Allowance to Central Government servants|url=http://dispur.nic.in/sixthpay/sixth-pay-allowances.pdf|publisher=Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure|access-date=26 March 2014}}</ref><ref name=6th_hra>{{cite web|title=THE ALL INDIA SERVICES (HOUSE RENT ALLOWANCE) RULES,|url=http://cg.nic.in/ias/View_Reports.aspx?fn=1|publisher=Chhattisgarh State Government|access-date=26 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811040431/http://cg.nic.in/ias/View_Reports.aspx?fn=1|archive-date=11 August 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> X, Y, and Z are more commonly known as Tier-1, {{anchor|Tier II city}}Tier-2, and Tier-3 cities, respectively. There are eight X cities and ninety seven Y cities.

On the basis of the 2011 census, two cities—[[Pune]] and [[Ahmedabad]]—were upgraded from Y to X and twenty one cities from Z to Y on 1 April 2014.<ref name=6th_cities>{{cite web|title=Sixth Central Pay Commission Classification of Cities|url=http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02ser/11016_2_2008-AIS-II.pdf|publisher=Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension|access-date=26 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161213064359/http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02ser/11016_2_2008-AIS-II.pdf|archive-date=13 December 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Government upgrades 29 cities, towns for HRA, transport allowance {{!}} Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis|url = http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-government-upgrades-29-cities-towns-for-hra-transport-allowance-2090594|access-date = 12 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Revised List of Classification Cities for HRA of central government employees|url = http://www.govemployees.in/2015/06/02/revised-list-of-classification-cities-for-hra-of-central-government-employees/|website = Govt. Employees India|access-date = 12 June 2015}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" |style="padding
! '''HRA classification'''
!'''City'''
|-
|X
| [[Ahmedabad]], [[Bengaluru]], [[Chennai]], [[Delhi]], [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]], [[Kolkata]], [[Mumbai]] and [[Pune]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||Y|| [Previously Known as B]style="background: #b0e0e6;" |
[[Agra]], [[Ajmer]], [[Aligarh]], [[Amravati]], [[Amritsar]], [[Asansol]], [[Aurangabad, Maharashtra|Aurangabad]], [[Bareilly]], [[Belgaum]], [[Bhavnagar]], [[Bhiwandi]], [[Bhopal]], [[Bhubaneswar]], [[Bikaner]], [[Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh|Bilaspur]], [[Bokaro Steel City]], [[Chandigarh]], [[Coimbatore]], [[Cuttack]], [[Dehradun]], [[Dhanbad]], [[Bhilai]], [[Durgapur]], [[Erode]], [[Faridabad]], [[Firozabad]], [[Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh|Ghaziabad]], [[Gorakhpur]], [[Gulbarga]], [[Guntur]], [[Gwalior]], [[Gurgaon|Gurugram]], [[Guwahati]], [[Hamirpur (disambiguation)|Hamirpur]], [[Hubli–Dharwad]], [[Indore]], [[Jabalpur]], [[Jaipur]], [[Jalandhar]], [[Jalgaon]], [[Jammu]], [[Jamnagar]], [[Jamshedpur]], [[Jhansi]], [[Jodhpur]], [[Kakinada]], [[Kannur]], [[Kanpur]], [[Karnal]], [[Kochi]], [[Kolhapur]], [[Kollam]], [[Kozhikode]], [[Kurnool]], [[Ludhiana]], [[Lucknow]], [[Madurai]], [[Malappuram]], [[Mathura]], [[Mangalore]], [[Meerut]], [[Moradabad]], [[Mysore]], [[Nagpur]], [[Nanded]], [[Nashik]], [[Nellore]], [[Noida]], [[Patna]], [[Pondicherry|Puducherry]], [[Purulia]], [[Prayagraj]], [[Raipur]], [[Rajkot]], [[Rajahmundry|Rajamahendravaram]], [[Ranchi]], [[Rourkela]], [[Ratlam]], [[Salem, Tamil Nadu|Salem]], [[Sangli]], [[Shimla]], [[Siliguri]], [[Solapur]], [[Srinagar]], [[Surat]], [[Thanjavur]], [[Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Thrissur]], [[Tiruchirappalli]], [[Tirunelveli]], [[Tiruvannamalai]], [[Ujjain]], [[Bijapur|Vijayapura]], [[Vadodara]], [[Varanasi]], [[Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation|Vasai-Virar City]], [[Vijayawada]], [[Visakhapatnam]], [[Vellore]] and [[Warangal]]
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||Z|| style="background: #FF9;" |All other cities
|}

==Historical classification==
The cities were classified as follows before the Sixth Central Pay Commission's recommendations were followed in 2008.<ref name="finmin1"/> This classification was initially based on the recommendations of the [[Pay commission#Fifth Pay Commission|Fifth Central Pay Commission of India]] in 1997.<ref name="finmin1">{{cite web |url=http://finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/miscellaneous/hracca.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=12 February 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091229042217/http://finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/miscellaneous/hracca.pdf |archive-date=29 December 2009 }}</ref> Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai were classified as A-1 cities.<ref name="business-standard1">{{cite web|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/bangalore-gets-a1-status-107092501055_1.html|title=Bangalore gets A1 status |date=25 September 2007|work=Business Standard}}</ref> City statuses were later revised based on the results of the 2001 [[Census of India]].<ref name="finmin1"/> Hyderabad was accorded the A1 status on 31 August 2007, and Bangalore on 21 September 2007.<ref name="business-standard1" /> CCA classification was abolished in 2008.

{|class="wikitable" style="padding: 3px;"
|-
! '''CCA classification'''
! '''HRA classification'''
!'''City'''
|- style="background: #FCF;"
||A-1||style="background: #FCF;"|A-1||style="background: #FCF;"|[[Mumbai]]
|- style="background: #FCF;"
||A-1 || style="background: #FCF;" |A-1 || style="background: #FCF;" |[[Delhi]]
|- style="background: #FCF;"
||A-1 || style="background: #FCF;" |A-1 || style="background: #FCF;" |[[Kolkata]]
|- style="background: #FCF;"
||A-1 ||style="background: #FCF;"|A-1 ||style="background: #FCF;"|[[Chennai]]
|- style="background: #FCF;"
||A-1||style="background: #FCF;"|A-1<ref name="business-standard1"/>||style="background: #FCF;"|[[Bengaluru]]
|- style="background: #FCF;"
||A-1 || style="background: #FCF;" |A-1<ref name="hyd_reclass">[http://www.csir.res.in/csir/external/heads/aboutcsir/announcements/cir371.pdf Upgradation of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation as A-1 class city for the purpose of House Rent Allowance/Compensatory (City) Allowance"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408204518/http://www.csir.res.in/csir/external/heads/aboutcsir/announcements/cir371.pdf |date=8 April 2008 }}. Department of Expenditure. Ministry of Finance. 10 October. 2007</ref> || style="background: #FCF;" |[[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A || style="background: #b0e0e6;" |A || style="background: #b0e0e6;" |[[Ahmedabad]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Surat]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Pune]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Jaipur]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Lucknow]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Kanpur]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Vadodara]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Nagpur]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Nashik]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Patna]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Vishakapatnam]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Bhopal]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Indore]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Gwalior]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Jabalpur]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Aurangabad, Maharashtra|Aurangabad]]
|- style="background: #b0e0e6;"
||A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|A||style="background: #b0e0e6;"|[[Gandhinagar]]
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Madurai]]<ref name="finmin1"/>
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Aligarh]]
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Kochi]]
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Coimbatore]]<ref name="finmin1"/>
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Vijayawada]]
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Tiruchirapalli]]
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Nashik]]
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Rajkot]]
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Solapur]]
|-
|style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Anand, Gujarat|Anand]]
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Ludhiana]]
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Agra]]
|- style="background: #FF9;"
||B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|B-1||style="background: #FF9;"|[[Meerut]]
|-

|style="background: #CFC;"|B-1||style="background: #CFC;"|B-2||style="background: #CFC;"|[[Thiruvananthapuram]]
|- style="background: #CFC;"
||B-1||style="background: #CFC;"|B-2||style="background: #CFC;"|[[Kozhikode]]
|- style="background: #CFC;"
||B-1||style="background: #CFC;"|B-2||style="background: #CFC;"|[[Faridabad]]
|- style="background: #CFC;"
||B-1||style="background: #CFC;"|B-2||style="background: #CFC;"|[[Varanasi]]
|- style="background: #CFC;"
||B-1||style="background: #CFC;"|B-2||style="background: #CFC;"|[[Jamshedpur]]
|- style="background: #CFC;"
||B-1||style="background: #CFC;"|B-2||style="background: #CFC;"|[[Allahabad|Prayagraj]]
|- style="background: #CFC;"
||B-1||style="background: #CFC;"|B-2||style="background: #CFC;"|[[Amritsar]]
|- style="background: #CCA;"
||B-1||style="background: #CCA;"|C||style="background: #CCA;"|[[Dhanbad]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh|Gorakhpur]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Hubli-Dharwad]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Bhavnagar]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Raipur]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Mysore]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Thrissur]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Mangalore]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Guntur]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Bhubaneswar]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Amravati]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Srinagar]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Bhilai]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Warangal]]
|-
|style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background:#9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Tirunelveli]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Nellore]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Ranchi]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Guwahati]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Aurangabad, Maharashtra|Aurangabad]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Chandigarh]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Patiala]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Jodhpur]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
|style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Pondicherry (city)|Puducherry]]
|-
|style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|B-2||style="background: #9CF;"|[[Salem, Tamil Nadu|Salem]]
|- style="background: #9CF;"
||B-2|| style="background: #9CF;"|B-2|| style="background: #9CF;"|[[Vellore]]

|- style="background:wheat;"
||B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Dindigul]]

|- style="background:wheat;"
||B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Dehradun]]
|- style="background:wheat;"
||B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Hajipur]]
|- style="background:wheat;"
||B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Kollam]]
|- style="background:wheat;"
||B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Sangli]]
|- style="background:wheat;"
||B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Jamnagar]]
|-
| style="background:wheat;"|B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Jammu (city)|Jammu]]
|- style="background:wheat;"
||B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Kurnool]]
|- style="background:wheat;"
||B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Roorkee]]
|- style="background:wheat;"
||B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Kannur]]
|- style="background:wheat;"
||B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Tiruvannamalai]]
|- style="background:wheat;"
||B-2|| style="background:wheat;"|C|| style="background:wheat;"|[[Etawah]]
|}

==Population-based classification==
The [[Reserve Bank of India]] (RBI) classifies centres into six tiers based on population.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/content/pdfs/100MCA0711_5.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=30 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811100548/http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/content/pdfs/100MCA0711_5.pdf |archive-date=11 August 2014 }}</ref> The tables below show the classification.

{|class="wikitable" style="padding: 3px;"
|+Classification of centres (tier-wise)
|-
! '''Population classification'''
!'''Population (2001 Census)'''
|-
|| Tier-1 || 1,00,000 and above
|-
|| Tier-2 || 50,000 to 99,999
|-
|| Tier-3 || 20,000 to 49,999
|-
|| Tier-4 || 10,000 to 19,999
|-
|| Tier-5 || 5,000 to 9,999
|-
|| Tier-6 || less than 5,000
|}

{|class="wikitable" style="padding: 3px;"
|+Population-group wise classification of centres
|-
! '''Population classification'''
!'''Population (2001 Census)'''
|-
|| Rural centre || up to 9,999
|-
|| Semi-urban centre || 10,000 to 99,999
|-
|| Urban centre || 1,00,000 to 9,99,999
|-
|| Metropolitan centre || 10,00,000 and above
|}

==See also==
* [[List of cities in India]]
* [[List of million-plus agglomerations in India]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Geographic classifications]]
[[Category:Lists of cities in India]]

[[fr:Villes de l'Inde]]

Classification of Indian cities - Revision history

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