Under the Subject of UGDM in TCP (Town and Country planning)

1. URBAN GOVERNANCE
OF SURAT CITY: SMC

2. Contents
 Introduction
 SMC: Surat Municipal Corporation
 Zoning
 Function of Zone office
 Departments
• Health Department
• Assessment And Recovery Department
• Engineering Department
 Functions of A Ward Office
 Services
 Good Governance
◦ As Provider
◦ As Facilitator
 SMC GIS Portal
 Awards
 Conclusion
 References

3. Urban Governance of Surat City: SMC
What is Urban Governance ?
 Urban governance refers to how government (local, regional
and national) and stakeholders decide how to plan, finance
and manage urban areas. It involves a continuous process of
negotiation and contestation over the allocation of social and
material resources and political power.

4. SMC: Surat Municipal
Corporation

5. History and role
 It has come into being under the Bombay
Provincial Municipal Act, 1949.
 ‘The Surat Municipal Corporation’ was re-
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.

6. SMC sub divided into 7 zones:
1. East Zone
2. South Zone
3. North Zone
4. West Zone
5. Central Zone
6. South-East Zone
7. South-West Zone

7. Source: Surat Municipal Corporation

8. FUNCTIONS OF A ZONE OFFICE
 By decentralising various public services
being provided by Surat Municipal
Corporation 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.

9. Departments :
Source: Surat Municipal Corporation

10. Health Department Assessment and Recovery 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.
 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.

11. Engineering Department
 To build new roads , 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.

12. Services :
Source: Surat Municipal Corporation

13. 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.

14. GOOD GOVERNANCE AS
PROVIDER
AS FACILITATOR
 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
 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

15. SMC GIS Portal

16. 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.

17. Awards (2017-18)
 India Smart Cities Awards
2018 - "The City Award“
 India Smart Cities Awards
2018 - "Project Award -
Transport & Mobility“
 The Water Digest Water
Awards 2017-18
 Smart Infrastructure
Innovation Award
 Asian Townscape Award
2017
 Smart Infrastructure
Symposium Award 2017
 SKOCH Swachh Bharat
Award (Silver)
 SKOCH Smart City Award
(Silver)
 (in 3 different categories)
 Smart Cities India Awards
2017

18. Conclusion :

19. References :
 Google
 Surat Municipal Corporation
 GIS portal of SMC

20. Thank You…