Surat, India is the second largest city of Gujarat and 7th largest city of India. Surat
is not only fastest growing cities of India but also of the world. And
this has been proved by UN report. The city has several sobriquets like diamond
city, SilkCity and the city of flyovers.
1.SuratCity:Surat
city is mainly known for its Diamond and textile business. Recently the area of
city has been increased on official level.The major reason of fast growing area of the city is, increasing
population. The population f the city is growing very fast because peoples from
different parts of the country are coming for business purpose and choseto stay there and operate their
business.Overall look of the city is
new and if you enter from Athwa lined of the city to Piplod you can se swanky
business complexes and buildings which will bear to the fact that the city is
prosperous.
2.Surat People and culture : Culture of Surat is unique from rest of India. People of Surat believe in earn and live the life in
full joy. While nowhere else in India Kite festival celebrate, Surat celebrate its own festival Kite
festival or Utrrayan.As far as food of Surat is concerned, it is called“Surat
nu jamman ane Kashi na maran” . Means food of Surat and death in Kashi is always prefrble.
Undhyu is specialbhajiya of Surat. If you chance upon
in the city inGarba time, you can see
the glazing city with men and women playing Garba.
3.SuratTransports and convenience : Main means of transport of Surat city is Auto
Rickshaw.You can see every where in the
city Auto Rickshaw. Though recently city bus was launched and was thought that
city bus will throw the auto rickshaw out of business butit was wrong. Main reason of preferring Auto
rickshaw to business is that no one wants to wait for bus. Also fare of
rickshaw in Surat is less as compared to other
cities of India.
Surat also has
its own Airport which it got last year after much wait. Though currently most
of the flights are to and from Major cities but it is hoped that very soon the
city will get International airport.
4.Surat Education: Though the city Surat is mainly business hubbut the city has also several schools and colleges where quality education
is given. Still, Gujarati is the prime language of schools but most of the parents
are now getting their children admitted in English schools. VeerNarmadSouthGujaratUniversity is one of the best university of Gujarat
which is in Surat.
Here students of Surat are different than other
parts of India
in the sense that 95% of school students dojobs and also studies.Most of
the students here prefer Account related education.
5.Surat Business : As I have mentioned above .
Surat is also called business hub of India. Surat is known on
international level for two reasons. First Diamond and second is textile.Diamond is suratis famous all over the world. And why not?Surat
does not produceeven an iota of Diamond
stillthe city polishes8 out of 10 diamonds.Because of global economic crisis the Diamond
business of Surat
was badly affected. Hundreds of workers of diamonds got jobless after Deevali
festivalin 2008.Another major business of surat isTextile. Textile industry of Surat
supplies most of the textile needs to rest of India. Whileeconomic recession hit the diamond city very
badly, textile industry of Surat
emerged as stronger than ever before standproved thatreal business of
Surat Textile.
6.Surat Visiting
places : Surat
has several places to visit.
a.Old
fort : First forte of Surat was established
by British here in Surat. Thatforte is still there and can be viewed hat.
b.Parsi
Library : One of the oldest library of Surat
c.Dummas : Dumas is most favorite place
for Suratito pass their timefar from commotion of city. Dumas are about
10 km away from main city. ArabSea is touches Dumas.
That is why people come here to have a nice breeze ofsea.
d.Ubhrat
:About 35 km away from city, this is
also one of the best visiting places of Surat.