The document summarizes the urban governance of Surat City through its local civic body, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC). It outlines that SMC is responsible for the administration of Surat and carries out obligatory and discretionary functions to provide a better quality of life. SMC has divided the city into 7 zones to decentralize public services. The zones oversee functions like health, engineering, assessment, and more. SMC aims to be a good governance provider through services and infrastructure like water, roads, waste management, and education. It also facilitates industry, commerce, recreation and active community participation. SMC utilizes technology like a GIS portal to centralize information for improved governance and decision making.

1. URBAN GOVERNANCE OF SURAT
CITY: SMC

2. Urban Governance of Surat City: SMC
• 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.

3. About SMC: Surat Municipal
Corporation

4. 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 reestablished 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.

5. 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. 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.

8. 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.
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.
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9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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

12. SMC GIS Portal

13. 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.

14. Thank You….