A comparative assessment of quality of life for zones of Surat city

Due to economic globalization and urbanization, traditional paradigms, urban metabolism, and governmental structure altered. To manage drastically increased urban population is the main challenge for any local government particularly for urban planner and policy maker in a 21st century. In this urbanization era so many terms are verdict like eco-city, sustainable city, green city, compact city and so on. However, the main question is how to reach this concept. However, quality of life is concepts that sustainably expand developing and industrial city since the 1970s. The quality of life is the tools that mainly focuses people’s happiness and give direction to the government about how to deal major urban problems. In this research paper study is conducted for Surat city, located in western part of India.This descriptive-analytical study attempt to examine the quality of life among seven zones of Surat city using both objective and subjective approach. The quality of life was found based on seven variable such as environment, health, economic, social, political, education, and infrastructure. To collect precise data, a questionnaire designed and reliability confirmed using Cronbach’s alpha as 0.846.The goal of this research work is to examine the quality of life of the citizen in Surat city. The mean of all parameter determined and got average QOL score for Surat city is 2.94. From the analysis, it is concluded that public is dissatisfied with political parameter (2.69) and physical environment parameter (2.48).