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🇮🇳 Surat

Clean Air Action Plan and Ambient Monitoring

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Surat is one of the 102 cities India designated as 'non-attainment' when it launched the National Clean Air Programme in 2019, which obliges the city to write and fund a clean-air action plan and gives it national money to do so. The municipal corporation runs an Air Quality Management Cell for that work. Its own continuous ambient monitoring consists of two sensor-based stations, at the Varachha and Limbayat zone offices, publishing live, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly readings; the Gujarat Pollution Control Board operates seven further stations in the city that take manual samples rather than continuous ones. Seven additional continuous stations — four municipal, three GPCB — are planned under the programme's funding.

Live 📅 since 2019
Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run bySurat Municipal Corporation Air Quality Management Cell, alongside Gujarat Pollution Control Board stations
Scale🏙️ City-wide

📊 Impact

At the Swachh Vayu Survekshan awards announced on 7 September 2024, Surat was ranked first among Indian cities with more than a million residents, ahead of Jabalpur and Agra. The survey scores cities largely on the measures they implement rather than on measured concentrations, and neither the award announcement nor the corporation publishes a Surat-specific reduction against the programme's 2017-18 baseline.

🎓 Lesson

Two instruments in the same city answer different questions. Surat meters industrial particulate emissions continuously on hundreds of chimneys, because a market needs a number a plant will pay for; it measures the ambient air across a city of several million at two continuous municipal points, because nothing yet depends on that number in the same way. A national ranking that rewards plans rather than concentrations does not close the gap.

🌱 EnvironmentAir qualitySensors & IoT

Sources

↗ Surat Municipal Corporation, Continuous Ambient Air Monitoring StationsThe operator's own station list: two sensor-based continuous stations at the Varachha and Limbayat zone offices with coordinates, data described as updated 'Live, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly etc.', seven GPCB manual stations, and the seven planned additional continuous stations (four SMC, three GPCB) under NCAP funds. A continuously revised departmental page, so no publication date is recorded.
↗ Surat Municipal Corporation, Air Quality Management CellEstablishes that the cell is responsible for operating and maintaining the air quality monitoring stations across the city.
↗ Surat Municipal Corporation, Clean Air Action PlanThe city's action plan under the National Clean Air Programme, the instrument that the non-attainment designation obliges.
↗ Gujarat Samachar (media), on the Swachh Vayu Survekshan resultPublished 8 September 2024Carries the ranking: first among cities with populations above one million in the awards announced 7 September 2024, ahead of Jabalpur and Agra. The report gives no Surat-specific PM10 reduction figure, which is why the entry does not state one.
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Evidence Passport · public beta 6 addressable claims, 4 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-7b31c3b7f294722b quantitative
Surat is one of the 102 cities India designated as 'non-attainment' when it launched the National Clean Air Programme in 2019
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The corporation publishes its clean-air action plan as the instrument required under the National Clean Air Programme, the national scheme launched in 2019 that named 102 cities as not meeting ambient standards.
Caveat
The count of non-attainment cities was later revised upward nationally as the programme expanded; 102 is the figure for the 2019 launch cohort that Surat belongs to.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Surat Municipal Corporation, Clean Air Action Plan
Claim 2 clm-64471dc087f45ac0 descriptive
Its own continuous ambient monitoring consists of two sensor-based stations, at the Varachha and Limbayat zone offices, publishing live, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly readings
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The operator's own station page lists exactly two sensor-based continuous stations with coordinates — Varachha Zone Office and Limbayat Zone Office — and describes the data as updated 'Live, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly etc.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Surat Municipal Corporation, Continuous Ambient Air Monitoring Stations
Claim 3 clm-b68710fb2f827857 descriptive
the Gujarat Pollution Control Board operates seven further stations in the city that take manual samples rather than continuous ones
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The same municipal page distinguishes its two sensor-based continuous stations from seven manual air monitoring stations operated in the city by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Surat Municipal Corporation, Continuous Ambient Air Monitoring Stations
Claim 4 clm-fec509a11cb56f13 descriptive
Seven additional continuous stations — four municipal, three GPCB — are planned under the programme's funding
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The municipal page records a joint SMC and GPCB decision to install seven further continuous stations under NCAP funds, four by the corporation and three by the state board, and names planned locations.
Caveat
These are planned rather than operating stations; the page gives no commissioning date.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Surat Municipal Corporation, Continuous Ambient Air Monitoring Stations
Claim 5 clm-9320b859709c51ed quantitative
At the Swachh Vayu Survekshan awards announced on 7 September 2024, Surat was ranked first among Indian cities with more than a million residents, ahead of Jabalpur and Agra
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Verbatim: 'Surat has emerged as the leading city in India for air quality improvements, followed by Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur and Uttar Pradesh's [Agra]', in a report dated 8 September 2024 about awards announced the previous day, in the category for cities above one million residents.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gujarat Samachar (media), on the Swachh Vayu Survekshan result
Claim 6 clm-604edd231b9c032c quantitative
The survey scores cities largely on the measures they implement rather than on measured concentrations, and neither the award announcement nor the corporation publishes a Surat-specific reduction against the programme's 2017-18 baseline
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The report of the award gives national aggregates — how many cities cut PM10 by more than 20 and 40 per cent against the 2017-18 base year — but no Surat figure, and no such figure was found on the corporation's own air-quality pages.
Caveat
A negative statement about what the sources do not contain; it rests on the pages read for this entry rather than on an exhaustive search of municipal publications.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gujarat Samachar (media), on the Swachh Vayu Survekshan result
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Surat Municipal Corporation Air Quality Management Cell, alongside Gujarat Pollution Control Board stations
Actor types
city-government, regional-government, national-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
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Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
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4 source dossiers

Surat Municipal Corporation, Continuous Ambient Air Monitoring Stations suratmunicipal.gov.in · 3 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · suratmunicipal.gov.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-20
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The operator's own station list: two sensor-based continuous stations at the Varachha and Limbayat zone offices with coordinates, data described as updated 'Live, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly etc.', seven GPCB manual stations, and the seven planned additional continuous stations (four SMC, three GPCB) under NCAP funds. A continuously revised departmental page, so no publication date is recorded.

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Claims linked
Surat Municipal Corporation, Air Quality Management Cell suratmunicipal.gov.in · background

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src-1d7dd20d9f8a6fb3
Publisher
Name not classified · suratmunicipal.gov.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-20
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Establishes that the cell is responsible for operating and maintaining the air quality monitoring stations across the city.

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Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Surat Municipal Corporation, Clean Air Action Plan suratmunicipal.gov.in · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-9c2bf126543dbd7c
Publisher
Name not classified · suratmunicipal.gov.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-20
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The city's action plan under the National Clean Air Programme, the instrument that the non-attainment designation obliges.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Gujarat Samachar (media), on the Swachh Vayu Survekshan result english.gujaratsamachar.com · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-d0eb593f3c764e18
Publisher
Name not classified · english.gujaratsamachar.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-09-08
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-20
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Carries the ranking: first among cities with populations above one million in the awards announced 7 September 2024, ahead of Jabalpur and Agra. The report gives no Surat-specific PM10 reduction figure, which is why the entry does not state one.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Clean Air Action Plan and Ambient Monitoring” — Surat, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/surat-air-quality-monitoring/ (last verified 2026-08-20). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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