Orangi Town
اُورنگی ٹاؤن
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Orangi Town was split into 13 Union Councils
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| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Sindh |
| City District | Karachi |
| Established | 2001 |
| Disbanded | 2011 |
| Union Councils | 13 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 60 km2 (22 sq mi) |
| Population
(2017)
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| • Total | 520,195 |
| Postal code |
75800
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Orangi Town (Sindhi: اورنگي ٽائون), (Urdu: اُورنگی ٹاؤن) is a residential town in the northwestern part of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. 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 Orangi District formerly Karachi West District in 2015.
Orangi Town was bordered by New Karachi Town to the north east across the Shahrah-e-Zahid Hussain, Baldia Town to the west, Hub Chowki to the north west, Gulberg Town to the east across the Gujjar Nala stream, Liaquatabad Town to the south east, and SITE Town to the south. It also linked to Northern Bypass M-10 through Shahrah-e-Qaddafi. There were 13 residential neighborhoods, called union councils within Orangi Town.[1]
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.[citation needed]
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]
24°57′N 66°58′E / 24.950°N 66.967°E / 24.950; 66.967
