Orangi Town

Orangi Town (Urdu: اُورنگی ٹاؤن) lies in the northwestern part of the city that was named after the sprawling municipality of Orangi. Orangi Town was formed in 2001 as part of The Local Government Ordinance 2001, and was subdivided into 13 union councils. The town system was disbanded in 2011, and Orangi Town was re-organized as part of Karachi West District in 2015.

Orangi Town
اُورنگی ٹاؤن
اورنگي ٽائون‎
Constituent Town of Karachi
Orangi Town was split into 13 Union Councils
Orangi Town was split into 13 Union Councils
CountryPakistan
ProvinceSindh
City DistrictKarachi
Established2001
Disbanded2011
Union Councils
13
Area
 • Total60 km2 (22 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)
 • Total520,195
Postal code
75800

Location

Orangi Town was bordered by New Karachi Town to the north across the Shahrah-e-Zahid Hussain, Gulberg Town to the east across the Gujjar Nala stream, Liaquatabad Town to the south, and SITE Town to the west. There were 13 residential neighborhoods, called union councils within Orangi Town.[1]

History

Orangi became famous in the 1980s when local inhabitants became frustrated at the lack of development in the area by the municipal administration and launched the Orangi Pilot Project under the guidance of Akhtar Hameed Khan.[2] The Orangi area was the largest squatter settlement in Karachi at the time, so the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) did not extend services to the Orangi community.[3] The local community financed, designed and built their own low-cost sewerage system.[4]

The federal government introduced local government reforms in the year 2000, which eliminated the previous "third tier of government" (administrative divisions) and replaced it with the fourth tier (districts). The effect in Karachi was the dissolution of the former Karachi Division in 2001, and the merging of its five districts to form a new Karachi City-District with eighteen autonomous constituent towns including Kemari Town. In 2011, the system was disbanded but remained in place for bureaucratic administration until 2015, when the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation system was reintroduced. In 2015, Kemari Town was re-organized as part of Karachi West district.

Localities within Orangi Town

Gulshan-e-Bahar
Baloch Goth[1]
Bilal Colony
Chisti Nagar
Raees Amrohi Colony
Data Nagar
Ghabool Town
Ghaziabad
Hanifabad
Haryana Colony
Iqbal Baloch Colony[1]
Madina Colony
Mohammad Nagar[1]
Mominabad
Mujahidabad
Chishti Nagar[1]Toheed Colony
sadiq abad
Islam Chok
disco Mor
Baba Wilayat Ali shah Colony
Fareed Colony
Islam Nagar
Raheem Shah Colony
14-C
15 number
12 Number
5 Number
Makhdoom Shah Colony
1-K
Dabba Mor
Aziz Nagar
Millat Colony.

Bacha Khan Flyover (Banaras flyover)

The Bacha Khan Flyover (Banaras flyover) in Orangi Town is a 2.5 km-long flyover built in 2009. Bacha Khan Flyover was built to prevent ethnic violence among two groups and to protect one from the other.[5][6]

See also

References
  1. "Orangi Town". City District Government of Karachi website. Archived from the original on 13 June 2006. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  2. Imdad Hussain (15 March 2014). "Remembering Dr Akhtar Hameed Khan". Pakistan Today (newspaper). Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  3. Hasan, Arif (1999) Akhtar Hameed Khan and the Orangi Pilot Project. City Press, Karachi. ISBN 969-8380-20-5
  4. "ORANGI PILOT PROJECT". web.mit.edu.
  5. "What's in a name? Everything, says this neighbourhood for new Banaras flyover". The Express Tribune. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  6. Khalid, Bilal (27 April 2023). "Flying over Karachi's traffic issues". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 1 May 2023.

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