Proactive Disclosures under the Right to Information Act - Chapter 2, Section - IV
(I) The Particulars of Organization, Functions and Duties
Organization
Surat Municipal Corporation is a local self government which has been constituted under State Legislature and governed and administered under the Bombay Provincial Municipal Act, 1949. It carries out all the obligatory functions and discretionary functions entrusted by the BPMC Act,1949.
History
The Surat Municipality came into existence on 15.05.1852. The Surat Municipality was converted into Surat Municipal Corporation on 1st October 1966.
At present The area of the city is 326.515 sq.km and the population as per the Census 2001 is 2.87 million.
Functions and Duties
Section – 63 and 66 of the BPMC Act 1949 defines the obligatory and discretionary duties of the Corporation. The same can be referred at
https://www.suratmunicipal.gov.in/Content/Documents/Downloads/Acts/BpmcAct/bpmcact6.pdf
Departmental Functions and Duties
- Account
- Affordable Housing Cell
- Antrik Fariyad Samiti
- Audit
- Birth & Death
- Bridge Cell
- CE Special Cell
- Central Cell (Assessment & Recovery)
- Central Establishment
- Central Establishment (Health)
- Central Establishment (Inquiry)
- Central Establishment (Legal)
- Central Establishment (Pension)
- Central Medical Store
- Central Office
- Central Store
- Central Zone
- Civic Center (Central Zone)
- Complaint Management & Analysis Cell
- Culture
- Department of Affordable Housing
- Drainage
- Dumas Sea Face Development Cell
- East Zone - A
- East Zone - B
- Election & Census
- Environment Improvement & Protection Cell
- Family Planning
- Fire & Emergency Services
- Food Inspection Branch
- Gandhi Smruti Bhavan
- Garden
- Garden Project Cell
- Health (Account)
- Health Prosecution
- Heritage Cell
- Homoeopathic Dispensary
- Hydraulic
- Indoor Stadium
- Information Systems
- Integrated Child Development Service Department (ICDS)
- Jagdishchandra Bose Aquarium
- Law
- Leprosy Control Unit
- Libraries & Reading Rooms
- Lights & Energy Efficiency Cell
- Market & Slaughter House
- Maskati Hospital
- Mid-Day Meal
- Mobile Dispensary
- Municipal Press
- Municipal Workshop
- Naturepark & Zoo
- North Zone
- Pathologoy
- Performing Art Centre
- Professional Tax
- Public Health Laboratory
- Public Infrastructure Cell
- Public Relation
- Rang Upvan C. C. Mehta Natya Gruh
- Record
- Recruitment
- Right of Citizen to Public Services
- Road Development
- RTI Cell
- Sanjeevkumar Auditorium
- Sardar Patel Smruti Bhavan
- Science Centre
- Secretary Branch
- Sexually Transmitted Disease Care Project
- Shops & Establishments
- Slum Upgradation Cell
- SMIMER
- Solid Waste Management
- South East Zone (Limbayat)
- South West Zone
- South Zone A
- South Zone B
- SUMAN School Cell
- Surat Fort
- Swami Vivekananda Auditorium
- Swimming Pool (Public Infrastructure Cell)
- Tapi River Front Dev Cell
- Town Development
- Town Planning
- Traffic - BRTS Project Cell
- UHC & Maternity Home
- Urban Community Development
- Vaccination
- Vector Born Disease Control
- Vehicle Tax Cell
- Vigilance & Inspection
- Watch & Ward
- Water Resources & Recreation Cell
- West Zone