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🇮🇳 Surat

SMAC Integrated Command and Control Centre

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Surat put its integrated command and control centre — the SMAC centre — into operation in 2016, among the earliest of the Smart Cities Mission, at a cost of ₹69 crore in mission funds. It is run by Surat Smart City Development Ltd, the corporation's special purpose vehicle, and aggregates feeds from departments that previously watched their own systems separately: transit and fare collection, solid waste, traffic signals, street lighting, water supply and drainage SCADA, CCTV and complaint handling. Its most concrete application is the door-to-door waste fleet, where GPS on the collection vehicles is checked against programmed routes and RFID tags identify vehicles at transfer stations and record their weight automatically.

Live 📅 since 2016
Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
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 Smart City Development Ltd, the special purpose vehicle of Surat Municipal Corporation
Scale🏙️ City-wide

🎓 Lesson

The waste application shows what makes a control room bite: the municipal commissioner has described a penalty for a vehicle that misses points on its route, so a tracked deviation lands on a contract rather than on a dashboard. The centre itself has no published evaluation a decade on — the national case study describes what it aggregates and what it cost, not what changed because of it, which is the ordinary condition of India's command centres rather than a peculiarity of Surat's.

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Sources

↗ NITI Aayog / Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, urban best-practice case studyPublished 2020The government evaluation office's case study 'Surat's ICCC - one of the earliest through SCM'. Verbatim: 'Surat operationalised its Integrated Command & Control Centre in 2016', 'The control centre has been commissioned at a cost of Rs. 69 crores through SCM funds', responsible institution 'Surat Smart City Development Ltd', coverage 'Pan-city: Surat, Gujarat'. Its Impact section names capabilities, not measured outcomes. Written by the evaluation arm of the government that funds the Smart Cities Mission, so treated as the funder's own account rather than outside scrutiny.
↗ Surat Municipal Corporation, ITS applications presentation (IRF India chapter)The corporation's own list of services monitored from the centre, including ITMS and fare collection, solid waste, intelligent traffic control, parking, street-light control and management, and water supply and drainage SCADA. Also carries the waste detail verbatim: 'Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tag is installed on all Door to Door vehicles. These automatically identify the vehicles at transfer stations and also record their weight automatically'.
↗ ThePrint (media), on the waste fleet and its penaltyPublished 12 February 2024Ground report carrying the municipal commissioner's description of the penalty: 'Every door-to-door vehicle is equipped with GPS... if that vehicle misses any of the things, there is provision of a penalty'.
↗ Smartnet (National Institute of Urban Affairs), SMAC Centre SuratThe national urban knowledge platform's record of the centre, describing it as an ICCC for managing municipal and allied services and listing the transit ticketing integrations among its features.
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Claim 1 clm-db64b462e159b8ef quantitative
Surat put its integrated command and control centre — the SMAC centre — into operation in 2016, among the earliest of the Smart Cities Mission, at a cost of ₹69 crore in mission funds
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Verbatim from the government case study: 'Surat operationalised its Integrated Command & Control Centre in 2016' and 'The control centre has been commissioned at a cost of Rs. 69 crores through SCM funds'. Its title describes it as 'one of the earliest through SCM'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. NITI Aayog / Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, urban best-practice case study
Claim 2 clm-7ee917236edc5ace descriptive
It is run by Surat Smart City Development Ltd, the corporation's special purpose vehicle
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The case study's fact sheet names the responsible institution as 'Surat Smart City Development Ltd' with coverage 'Pan-city: Surat, Gujarat'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. NITI Aayog / Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, urban best-practice case study
Claim 3 clm-d4173d0f6e2689d2 descriptive
aggregates feeds from departments that previously watched their own systems separately: transit and fare collection, solid waste, traffic signals, street lighting, water supply and drainage SCADA, CCTV and complaint handling
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The corporation's own presentation lists the services monitored from the centre, including 'ITMS & AFCS', 'Smart SWM System', 'ITCS', 'Intelligent Parking System', 'Street Light CCMS', 'Water Supply & Drainage SCADA', 'Revenue Collection' and 'Complaint Redressal'. The case study describes the same aggregation across transport, water, drainage, emergency, IT and health.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Surat Municipal Corporation, ITS applications presentation (IRF India chapter)
  2. NITI Aayog / Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, urban best-practice case study
Claim 4 clm-09e8ef7eb5c5ad53 descriptive
GPS on the collection vehicles is checked against programmed routes and RFID tags identify vehicles at transfer stations and record their weight automatically
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Verbatim from the corporation's presentation: 'Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tag is installed on all Door to Door vehicles. These automatically identify the vehicles at transfer stations and also record their weight automatically'. ThePrint's report describes GPS-equipped vehicles following programmed routes.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Surat Municipal Corporation, ITS applications presentation (IRF India chapter)
  2. ThePrint (media), on the waste fleet and its penalty
Claim 5 clm-d333a576226ebe94 descriptive
the municipal commissioner has described a penalty for a vehicle that misses points on its route, so a tracked deviation lands on a contract rather than on a dashboard
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The commissioner is quoted directly: 'Every door-to-door vehicle is equipped with GPS... if that vehicle misses any of the things, there is provision of a penalty.'
Caveat
The quote establishes that a penalty provision exists; neither the report nor the corporation publishes how often it has been applied or what it has cost contractors.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ThePrint (media), on the waste fleet and its penalty
Claim 6 clm-8b3608167460f954 descriptive
The centre itself has no published evaluation a decade on — the national case study describes what it aggregates and what it cost, not what changed because of it
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The case study's own Impact section lists capabilities — a holistic view of city functions, optimised resource allocation, preventative maintenance, real-time data analysis — without a single measured before-and-after figure, and no other evaluation of the centre was found.
Caveat
A negative statement about the absence of published evaluation; it rests on the sources read for this entry.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. NITI Aayog / Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, urban best-practice case study
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Surat Smart City Development Ltd, the special purpose vehicle of Surat Municipal Corporation
Actor types
city-government, national-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
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Cost
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Ownership
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Decision rights
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Exit conditions
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4 source dossiers

NITI Aayog / Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, urban best-practice case study dmeo.gov.in · 4 linked claims

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Name not classified · dmeo.gov.in
Type / language
pdf · language not classified
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Updated
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Source last checked
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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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Locator
Open the recorded source note

The government evaluation office's case study 'Surat's ICCC - one of the earliest through SCM'. Verbatim: 'Surat operationalised its Integrated Command & Control Centre in 2016', 'The control centre has been commissioned at a cost of Rs. 69 crores through SCM funds', responsible institution 'Surat Smart City Development Ltd', coverage 'Pan-city: Surat, Gujarat'. Its Impact section names capabilities, not measured outcomes. Written by the evaluation arm of the government that funds the Smart Cities Mission, so treated as the funder's own account rather than outside scrutiny.

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Claims linked
Surat Municipal Corporation, ITS applications presentation (IRF India chapter) indiairf.com · 2 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · indiairf.com
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pdf · language not classified
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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 corporation's own list of services monitored from the centre, including ITMS and fare collection, solid waste, intelligent traffic control, parking, street-light control and management, and water supply and drainage SCADA. Also carries the waste detail verbatim: 'Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tag is installed on all Door to Door vehicles. These automatically identify the vehicles at transfer stations and also record their weight automatically'.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
ThePrint (media), on the waste fleet and its penalty theprint.in · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

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src-7c0992a942f58497
Publisher
Name not classified · theprint.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-02-12
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

Ground report carrying the municipal commissioner's description of the penalty: 'Every door-to-door vehicle is equipped with GPS... if that vehicle misses any of the things, there is provision of a penalty'.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Smartnet (National Institute of Urban Affairs), SMAC Centre Surat smartnet.niua.org · background

Open original source ↗

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src-00fc43307808dda7
Publisher
Name not classified · smartnet.niua.org
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 national urban knowledge platform's record of the centre, describing it as an ICCC for managing municipal and allied services and listing the transit ticketing integrations among its features.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
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  • 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.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “SMAC Integrated Command and Control Centre” — Surat, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/surat-iccc-smac/ (last verified 2026-08-20). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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