Understanding the city

SURAT
World’s Fastest Growing City

SONALI HARLALKA , PUT22469

Surat District
List Of Talukas in Surat with Area

1. Bardoli- 399.09 KM
2. Chorasi - 396.95 KM
3. Kamrej - 377.60 KM
4. Mahuva - 267.02 KM
5. Mandvi - 829.02 KM
6. Mangrol - 526.45 KM
7. Umarpada- 513.26 KM
8. Olpad - 202.26 KM
9. Palsana - 202.26 KM
10. Surat City (Majura, Adajan, Udhna,
Katargam, Puna) – 326.7 KM
 Parking : A serious public concern But why?
Reason : Valuable road space is being used for vehicle parking in the absence of sufficient, planned parking space and services.

How should be our Approach?

Instead of merely concentrating on boosting parking availability, more
attention should be paid to demand control through enforcement and pricing
policies.
Problem of parking:

Some well-
thought-out
strategy and
1. Along streets 2. In institutions
prepared actions
to address the
issue. Like : Pay and Park Parking
Management

Reduce long Inclusion of Parking

3. In commercial centres 4. In residential colonies Priority basis parking
term on-street facilities in design
for NMT & IPT
parking
Leads to congestion
Population

The total population of Surat district is 60,81,322.

The total urban population in the district is 48,49,213.
The rural population in this district is 12,32,109.
Civic status, size class of town and population for 23 towns of Surat district

• Surat District's total

area is 4,418 km 2

• The density of Surat

District was 1,376 per
km 2 

• The region has the

highest population
density in the State,
followed by Ahmedabad
region.
Buffer
radius
With in 25 km
Jalalpore 0 km
Navsari 2.8 km
Hazira 23 km

With in 50 km
Bardoli 35 km

With in 100 km
Ankleswar 62 km
Bharuch 84 km

With in 300 km
Vadodra 152 km
Ahmedabad 265 km
Gandhinagar 284 km
Mumbai 289 km
 NH-8
Linkages
Surat is well connected to various locations
through national and state highways.

Connectivity to major industrial centers:

NH-8 connects Surat with
• Mumbai (307 km),
• Delhi (1,034 km),
• Kolkatta (1,676 km),
• Chennai (1,371 km) and
• Hyderabad (824 km).

Distance to other major cities of Gujarat:

Jamnagar (549 km), Rajkot (461 km), Bhavnagar (447
km), Valsad (77 km), Ahmedabad (278 km) and
Vadodara (167 km).
Introduction

Surat will be the world's fastest-growing

city from 2019 to 2035, according to a
study conducted by Economic Times.

What are the sectors that leads to such

growth?

• Diamond industries
• Textile Industries
• Chemical Industries
• IT sector
Introduction
Industry Sector
Industry Sector

According to 2011 Census, the total workers including

main and marginal workers constitute 42.0 percent of
the total population of the district. Of the total workers
the share of the main workers is 39.6 percent and the
marginal workers is 2.4 percent. The remaining
population is non-workers.
History

 Surat is a major hub of diamond cutting and polishing.

• Past
The first diamond workshops in Gujarat appeared in Surat
and Navasari in the late 1950s.
A legacy of old Dutch trade links, began after a Surti
entrepreneur returned from East Africa bringing diamond
cutters.

• Present
The rough diamonds are mined in South Africa and other
regions of the African continent, and go from here as smooth
gems to Antwerp, Belgium.

It is the city where the British first land in India.

Benefits

Around the world, 8 out of 10 diamonds on the market are

cut and polished here.
This industry earns India about US$10 billion in annual
exports.

• Surat’s business trade contributes to 90% of the total

national export of diamonds.

• Surat produces 9 million meters of fabric annually, which

accounts for 60% of the total polyester cloth production in
India.

• The overall annual turnover is around 5 billion rupees.

• Now the city is focusing on increasing the exports of its

textile
Growth

Surat ranked 10th in India with a GDP of 2.60 lakh crore

in fiscal year 2016 .

• Surat is the richest city in India ahead of Bangalore and

Madras having highest per capita income in the country.

• The homes of Surat have been declared most prosperous

by National Council of Applied Economic Research
(NCAER) and Future Capital Research in their latest study.

•  Surat is selected as the first smart IT city in India which

is being constituted by the Microsoft CityNext Initiative
tied up with IT services majors Tata Consultancy Services
and Wipro.
Adminstration

It is the only city in India to disclose municipal budgets

weekly.

• The Sitilink or Surat BRTS is a bus rapid transit system in

the city.

• Has a network of 245 buses connecting major localities.

• In May 2015, Tech giant IBM chose Surat among 16 global

locations for its smart cities program to help them address
challenges like waste management, disaster
management, and citizen services.
Concluding statement.

Surat has a beneficial placement in the

state map of Gujarat.

Thus utilising its networks and linkages would

further add up to the growth of the city.

With economy growth, there will be a need of

better transportation planning
To help sustain Surat as economic city.
R e f e re n c e
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http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-surat-gets-
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1673577

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/gdp-growth-
surat-fastest-mumbai-largest/266636/

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