Functions
By decentralising various public services being provided by Surat Municipal Corporation a 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.
FUNCTIONS OF A ZONE OFFICE
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.
Engineering Department
- To build new roads upto 60 feet with, to 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 upto 80 feet width and their repair work.
- To build new buildings and to maintain the Municipal Properties.
- To build and maintain School buildings.
- To sanction 1/2" domestic and 1" Industrial connection.
- Repair work of main water pipelines upto 22".
- Legal procedures for illegal connections, repair of polluted water connections.
- Issuing permits regarding stand posts, free connection hand pump, drainage.
- Legal procedures against illegal drainage connections & illegal construction.
- To construct and maintain (box drain) rain water drain.
- To maintain and clean temporary/permanent drainage.
- Disposal of rain water through new additional catch pits.
- 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.
- Issuing permits for mandap, banner, hoarding-collection of land-rent, property rent.
- To remove permanent, / temporary encroachments, to make alternative arrangement for obstructing slums.
FUNCTIONS OF A WARD OFFICE
- Cleaning
- Sprinkling of Pesticides
- Collection, transportation and final disposal of solid waste.
- Disposal of Carcasses (small and big)
- License renewal of non-edible things (matches, Kerosene, coal, fireworks etc.) and edible things.
- To clean choked gully-trap.
- Cleaning of drip well.
- Chlorination of the well in use and chlorine test of water samples.
- Legal actions against citizens who are creating nuisance.
- Legal actions against citizens who are creating nuisance.
- Inspection of hotels, hawkers and small shopkeeper with hygienic point of view.
- Cleaning of public urinals.
- 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.