Is Surat really the fastest growing business city of India?
Someone says Surat is the fastest growing city of India and someone says it is the second fastest growing city of India some other would say it is one of the ten fastest growing city of India. We asked this question to many people of Surat of various field “Is Surat the fastest growing or second or third or fourth fastest growing city of India?
Barring few most of them were not sure as to whether Surat is the fastest
growing city of India or one of the fastest growing city of India? We got answers ranging from one of the fastest growing to the fastest growing city of India. But when we tried to check the confidence level and asked “Are you sure ? He would add, “I have heard but not sure. Some of them shook of the shoulders saying that whether it is the fastest or second of the fastest or tenth of the fastest does not make any difference to him.
SuratON.com decided to probe in to the matter and get the precise and authentic answer of the question and tried to check and understand what difference it would make for a common living citizen of Surat how it will going to influence his or her life.
First of all we asked this question to google the magical wand of this age for getting information we entered in the question in search ”Is Surat the fastest growing city of India?” We wanted to get the specific and authentic answer of this question with the source of the information and its credibility.
Google catered 612000 search results (Don’t worry) I am not going to discuss about all those results but on the first ten results third, fourth and fifth results are specifically relevant to our question.
On the third result there is one article of The times of India dated 23 July, 2011 titled “Surat fourth fastest growing city of the world” just try to remember fourth fastest growing city of the world not only of India (growth rate is 4.99 percent –Vow!) as a Surati it is a matter of great pleasure being an Indian two more god news are here as bonus Ghaziabad is on the second number (growth rate 5.20 Percent Ohhho!) the second good news? Faridabad is on the 8th number! Three Indian city have emerged in the world’s fastest growing cities list! But want to which is the first fastest growing city of the world? It is one Beihai Country? Southern China now don’t ask me the growth rate. Oh! You want to know? The growth rate is just 10.58 percent. Ouch! Yes it is more than double of the growth rate of Surat.
But some of you might say China is always faster than us in population growth! But my dear friends all this fastest growing cities list we were discussing was prepared on the basis of economical growth not in on Population growth!
Now some one will say but our original question was “Is Surat the fastest growing city of India? No, Surat city is the second fastest growing city of India and fourth fastest growing city of the world.
Wait. Wait! Do not run away our main question is coming now! So what? (IS SE KYA HOGA?) This list has been made by the City Mayors foundation on the basis of economical statistics and trend of all the cities and assuming the economical growth of these cities 2006 to 2020. Means this is the story of our future let us try to understand how this will influence our life up to 2020 For businessmen and industrialists this will attract more investment and investors in the Surat. For real estate world tight your seat belts golden period of real estate in Surat is yet coming ahead be ready with all the strength. For the Gujarat government administrative officers and Police departments challenges are coming ahead there will be blast of Surat population the culture and social structure will take drastic change which may not be easy to handle.
What about common man? The common man will have ample of opportunity to grow financially and he will have to grow he will have to run for that if he cannot grab this opportunity the life style of Surat will be out of his hand!













