ty. A number of dead street animals and public waste were not removed in time and a plague epidemic spread through the city, which caused a number of countries to impose travel and trade sanctions. The municipal commissioner during that time, S. R. Rao and the people of Surat worked hard in the late 1990s to clean the city.
Surat is also home to the royal descendants of the Amejee family which settled in Gujarat. The family were known to have direct lineage to the Mogul emperors, governed the Manikpur district, and were later known as the Boodi family
