A Comparative QOL Assessment for Surat City Zones

Urbanization, a precarious scenario is globally spread which is revamping the whole concept of urban planning. To handle the expansion radically increased urban area, thelocal government faces challenges particularly in planning for future. However, Quality Of Life (QOL) is a tool that expandscity into sustainable manner by improving environmental, educational, social, economic, political, health, and infrastructural conditions through objective and subjective appraisal. QOL is the path that builds a measure over happiness and satisfaction for the government in the mind of citizens. Current research paper discusses about anassessment of QOL in city Surat located in Gujarat, India. This descriptive-analytical study carried out through aquestionnaires-household field survey of 385 respondents in seven zones of Surat city. Collected data was analyzedusing spreadsheets. Cronbach's alpha for survey data was observed a value of 0.873. The analysis shows that environmental, health, social, and education index are highest in the South-West Zone. Economic index seems to be highest in the Central Zone and infrastructure index is the highest in the West Zone. The North Zone gets lowest environmental, health, social, political and educational index. However, the South Zone shows thelowest infrastructure and economic index. Among all zones in Surat, the QOL for the North Zone (2.77) was worst and for the South-West Zone was found to be excellent (3.52). A discussion over recommendations to improve QOL of Surat city concludes the paper.