The document discusses the urban governance of Surat City through its municipal corporation (SMC). It outlines the history and role of SMC in providing services and facilitating development. Key points include: SMC is divided into 7 zones, with each zone and ward office responsible for functions like sanitation, tax collection, infrastructure work. SMC aims to be a provider of basic amenities and facilitator of activities like education, healthcare, recreation. It utilizes technologies like GIS to improve governance and decision making. SMC has received numerous awards for its initiatives and performance.

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…