surat in five years surat will show the world how to make development in urban areas more sustainable in this initiative security of energy water and food will be combined with job creation alleviation of poverty and improved health and quality of life in rural and urban communities the approach has been endorsed by chief minister narendra modi a fact that has been revealed to surats stakeholders by peter head executive chairman of the ecological sequestration trust test a ukbased charity head had emphasized that to find an ecological path business models have to turn ecological surat had been chosen by test for the firstdemonstration project of the country because it is blessed with high level of civic commitment and surat municipal corporation smc has been pursuing sustainable technologies and practices surat is growing at 67 per cent and is likely to be a twin city by 2021 with an estimated population of 12 crore against the 46 lakh of today the clubbing of three major areas surat urban development authority suda area smc area and hazira urban development authority area is to be effected taking into account the maintenance of quality of living the new master plan of suda is scheduled for 2014 test observed that being located in a floodprone area the city had undertaken major efforts to address floodrisk management issues through structural and nonstructural interventions for environment protection surat has taken several initiatives to reduce energy consumption and effectively manage natural resources with the support of acccrn the city advisory committee was established to study the impact of climate change and as a result a city resilience strategy was published to bolster citizens spirit we know the master plan is based on 1991 census and is irrelevant today we would like change the land use zoning to make it more sustainable and tests proposal is welcome said s k datta senior town planner of suda while revising the development plan it would be nice to get the multiple stakeholders involvement informed by the integrated urban model developed by test the pilot project is planned to ground stateofart technology in surats cultural context