It is a platform (designed and developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Government of India) for supporting Open Data initiative of Surat Municipal Corporation, intended to publish government datasets for public use. The portal has been created under Software as A Service (SaaS) model of Open Government Data (OGD) Platform, thus gives avenues for resuing datasets of the City in different perspective.
This Portal has numerious modules; (a) Data Management System (DMS) for contributing data catalogs by various departments for making those available on the front end website after a due approval process through a defined workflow; (b) Content Management System (CMS) for managing and updating various functionalities and content types of Open Government Data Portal of Surat City; (c) Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) for collating and disseminating viewer feedback on various data catalogs; and (d) Communities module for community users to interact and share their zeal and views with others, who share common interests as that of theirs.