Surat: A police complaint has been lodged against Naresh Rana, a resident of Soniya Sangeeta Apartment in Chota Bazar area of Surat, for allegedly spreading a derogatory social media post targeting ward number 13 corporators of Surat Municipal Corpotion(SMC). The complaint was filed by Sanjay Dalal, a corporator of SMX, after the post gained traction on WhatsApp and was subsequently covered in local newspapers. The accused is BJP cadre only. He is advocate and Gaurakshak. Details of the Post ...Read More

Surat: A municipal school board principal in the city, Sanjay Patel, has been suspended for travelling abroad without permission and engaging in business activities. Patel allegedly made 33 trips to Dubai over the past two years, citing medical reasons to justify his absences. The suspension was ordered by Gujarat Education Minister Praful Pansheriya and Surat Municipal School Board administrative officer Mehul Patel. The action followed an anonymous complaint that led to an investigation rev...Read More

Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) is set to build the city’s first sports facility centre for indoor games under the span of the flyover at Parle Point Char Rasta. The project will involve the construction of a sports facility, reading room, and cafeteria, utilizing the open and available space below the three spans of the bridge located near the famous Jani Farsan. The estimated cost of the project is ₹2.5 crores. The city civic body stated that a similar facility is currently...Read More

Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), in its annual budget for 2023-24, has made provisions to run a Water Metro on the Tapi River. In a significant step toward the implementation of this project, a team of experts from Kochi, the only city in India with a Water Metro, will visit Surat soon. This team will assess the viability of the project and provide insights into how Surat can adapt the model for its own use. Earlier this year, Municipal Commissioner Shalini Agarwal visited the Ne...Read More

Surat: A new hydraulic platform from Finland has been included in the Surat Fire Brigade. The Rs. 15 crore platform can go up to 70 meters in height for fire fighting. The fire department currently has two such 70-meter hydraulic platforms in addition to another 55-meter high hydraulic platform. A 70-meter hydraulic platform can douse fires in buildings up to 20 stories high. Another turntable ladder machine is set to arrive in Surat from Germany soon.Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has through a notification declared the roster schedule for election of Mayors in 8 municipal corporations in the State for the next five years term. As per the notification, Ahmedabad will get the next Mayor from Backward Class for first two and half years and Woman in the second two and half years. Similarly Surat will get Woman and General category Mayors in the next five years term. Vadodara will get Mayors from Schedule Caste and Woman (Backward Class...Read More

Surat: The bridge city of Surat will get six more flyover bridges. The State government has given in-principle approval for construction of six new flyovers in the city at a cost of Rs. 380 crore. The new flyovers approved by the Chief Minister include: -Surat - Kamrej road entry exit ramp and Shyamdham mandir junction flyover bridge in East zone A (Varachha) area, -Surat - Bardoli road based APMC junction flyover, -Vallabhacharya road based Shrinathji flyover bridge's entry ramp...Read More

Surat: The Surat civic body has set an ambitious goal to generate 50% of the electricity consumed in its services from renewable energy sources by the year 2030. As part of this initiative, the Surat Municipal Corporation has announced a plan to meet the load demand of 600 public e-buses operating in the city by establishing a solar plant. The first solar plant for charging the BRTS (Bus Rapid Transit System) buses will be built at the Althan Bus Depot in collaboration with GIZ (Germany). All in...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat's second largest city Surat and the third-largest city, Vadodara, were among the top three places that received the highest rainfall today during 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. While Surat city received 3.11 inches of rain, Vadodara received 3.03 inches of rain. The largest city of Gujarat, Ahmedabad, also remained rain-soaked through the evening; however, the rainfall was not so intensive and less than one inch. Navsari city in South Gujarat received 2.60 inches of rainfall and stood in...Read More

Surat: Only 16 percent files of applications under the Impact fee law are approved in Surat due to some of provisions under the law. One of key requirement mandated is abuot provision of parking. The other issue is lesser FSI. One reason behind lower ratio of approval is that, the SMC officials check all doccuments carefully in the light of the recent Rajkot TRP game zone tragedy, in which the public servants also had to go to jail and face actions. As per a report SMC received 29,000 file...Read More