this presentation gives information about governance structure of SMC and how it affect in urban governance. Introduction to urban governance , staff detail etc.

1. SURAT
MUNICIPAL
CORPORATION
URBAN GOVERNANCE &
MANAGEMENT
Submitted to:
Prof. Tarisha Maheta
Prof. feona Dias
Submitted By:
Neel Vagadia
MURP II

2. About SMC
• Surat Municipal Corporation is the local civic body responsible for the
administration of Surat, Gujarat which has come into being under the Bombay
Provincial Municipal Act, 1949.
• The Surat Municipal Corporation was established on 2 October 1966. It carries
out all the obligatory functions and discretionary functions entrusted by the
BPMC Act,1949 with the following mission:
• To make Surat a dynamic, vibrant, beautiful, self-reliant and sustainable city
with all basic amenities, to provide a better quality of life
• Surat Municipal Corporation perceives its role as the principal facilitator and
provider of services as to provide a better quality of life.
• The Surat Municipal Corporation ranked 7th out of 21 Cities for best
administrative practices in India in 2014. It scored 3.5 on 10 compared to the
national average of 3.3. It is the only city in India to disclose municipal
budgets on a weekly basis.

3. 7 Zone
• EAST ZONE
• SOUTH ZONE
• NORTH ZONE
• WEST ZONE
• CENTRAL ZONE
• SOUTH-EAST ZONE
• SOUTH-WEST ZONE

4. MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER
City Engineer
Exe. Eng.(5)
Drainage Dept.
Solid Waste Dept.
Road
Development
Dept.
Dy.
Commissioner(P
&D)
• TDO
• I/C tp A
• I/C tp B
Central Archi.
Wing
Advert. And
holdings
Dy.
Commissioner(S
E Zone)
Ex. Eng.(3)
P.O.(R)
SMIMER Hospital
& Asst. nodal
Officer
Dy.
Commissioner(H
&H)
PO
Health Dept..
Tutor
Dy.
Commissioner
CSO
Watch & Ward
TDO
Tp dept..
Exe. Eng.(3)
Slum
Upgradation
Dy.
Commissioner(Depu.)
SOUTH Zone
Exe. Eng.(4)
Smart City
Traffic Cell
BTTS cell
Pay & Park
Dy.
Commissioner
PO
Central Office
Dy.
Commissioner
NORTH Zone
Exe. Eng.(2)
Public Parks &
garden Dept.
Garden Supri.
Garden Project
Cell
AMZ
RTI cell
MO
Food Insp.
Pathologist
CA
Account Dept.
PO
Affordable
housing Cell
I
Administrative Framework | Surat Municipal Corporation

5. Asst.
Commissioner
(WEST Zone)
Asst.
Commissioner
(SOUTH Zone)
Asst.
Commissioner
(Central Zone)
Asst.
Commissioner
(NOTH Zone)
Asst.
Commissioner
(SE Zone)
Asst.
Commissioner
(SW Zone)
1.General
Administration
2.Professional
Tax
3.Land & Estate
recovery
4.
Establishment /
Personnel
Dept./
Account Dep.
5. Shops & Estt.
Dept.
II • Dy.Engineer
Vigilance &
Inspection Branch.
MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER

6. MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER
Add.City Eng.
(Ele. /Mech)
Exe. Engg.(4)
Supervision
Work
Hydraulic Dept.
HWW varachha
Add.City Eng.
(Civil)(SW
zone)
Exe. Engg.
Textile deve. &
civil work of
Science centre
Chief Curator
Science centre
Manager
Indoor Stadum
Add.City Eng.
(Civil)(WEST
zone)
Exe. Engg.
Flood protective
project For
rander
Water Sports
Tapi river front
deve.
Manager
Add.City Eng.
(Civil)(Central
zone)
Exe. Engg.
Manager
Gandhi Smruti
Bhavan
Add.City Eng.
(Civil)(EAST
zone)
Exe. Engg(2).
Sardar Smruti
Bhavan
manager
Add. MS
Sarthana nature
Park
DEAN
Medical Supri.
SMIMER
HOSPITAL AND
COLLAGE
PO
Medical officer
of health
IO
VBDC
Department
Advisor
Exe. Engg.(4)
GSb
Traffic Cell
RDD
III

7. FUNCTIONS OF A ZONE OFFICE
❖ By decentralising various public services being provided by Surat Municipal
Corporation a Zonal systems has been Implemented. The whole Surat city has
been divided into 7 zones.The working of the zones are mentioned below in brief.
1. Health Department
•Scavenging the entire area coming under the zone.
•To clean chocked, gully-trap and sewer traps
•Food inspection branch
•License Permit
•Vaccination, Birth/Death registration, Family Planning.
•Market department to remove the nuisance of stray animals - Malaria
Control.

8. 2. Assessment and Recovery Department
•Assessment of properties
•recovery of property tax, education tax, etc.
•Appeals regarding assessment and rent recovery of corporation's various properties etc.
•Registration of shop/firms renewal and court complaints regarding breach of law.
3. Engineering Department
•To build new roads up to 60 feet with, to widen the roads, repairs & recarpeting of roads etc.
•To build society road by raising public funds - to prepare new footpath, to repair them,
scraping etc.
•To build roads up to 80 feet width and their repair work.
•To build new buildings and to maintain the Municipal Properties.
•To build and maintain School buildings.
•To remove permanent, / temporary encroachments, to make alternative arrangement for
obstructing slums.
•Issuing permits for layout of Low rise buildings procedure against illegal construction.
•Implementation of town planning scheme-recovery of betterment charges.
•To take actions against public nuisance and damaged property.

9. FUNCTIONS OF A WARD OFFICE
•Cleaning
•Sprinkling of Pesticides
•Collection, transportation and final disposal of solid waste.
•License renewal of non-edible things (matches, Kerosene, coal, fireworks etc.) and edible
things.
•To clean choked gully-trap.
•Chlorination of the well in use and chlorine test of water samples.
•Legal actions against citizens who are creating nuisance.
•Inspection of hotels, hawkers and small shopkeeper with hygienic point of view.
•Inspection of Cinema halls, theatres and other public entertainment places form hygiene
point of view.
•To avail basic details of the epidemic immediately inform higher authority regarding
disease controlling measures.
•Issue license for eatables and non-eatable items under the BPMC Act,1949.

10. GOOD
GOVERNANCE
AS PROVIDER
• Potable water supply
• Underground sewage system in the whole city
• All weather roads
• Efficient and sustainable solid waste management
• Health coverage to all, focused more on the poor
• Primary education to the needy & Library facility to all
• Upgradation of the amenities in the existing slums and
alternative accommodation
• Clean, green and pollution free environment
• Places of healthy entertainment and recreation
• Fire Service
• Efficient Urban Planning and Development
AS FACILITATOR
• Industrial growth
• Trade and commerce
• Health services
• Higher education and
research
• Cultural activities
• Sports and games
• Recreation and
entertainment
• Active peoples’ participation
AWARDS
• 59 Awards achieved
1997 -2017
• E.g.
Most Outstanding
Bridge National
Awards 1997
Swachh Bharat City
Award - 2nd
Markenomy Awards
2015
SKOCH Smart City
Awards
2017

11. SMC GIS Portal
• SMC is one of the local self-government to adopt
computerization in its early phases and use it for
better governance, improving operational efficiency
and increasing ease of interaction with citizens.
• Progression in Information Technology (IT) and
Geographical Information System (GIS) synchronizes
new applications to be centralized so that planners,
policy makers and citizens can use it in day-to-day
decision making process.
• The underlying concept is that better decisions are
made if the best available information is presented in
a manner most appropriate to the defined issues.

12. THANKYOU…….