Gulberg Town, Karachi Explained

Gulberg Town
Native Name:
Settlement Type:Constituent Town of Karachi
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Pakistan
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Sindh
Subdivision Type2:City District
Subdivision Name2:Karachi
Parts Type:Union Councils
Parts Style:coll, para
Parts:8
P1:Ayesha Manzil
Ancholi
Azizabad
Karimabad
Shafiq Mill Colony
Naseerabad
Water Pump
Yaseenabad
Government Type:Town Council
Leader Title:Town Nazim
Leader Name:Farooq Naimatullah
Leader Title1:Naib Nazim
Leader Name1:N/A
Leader Title2:Municipal Officer
Leader Name2:Latif Lodhi
Established Title:Established
Established Date:14 August 2001
Population As Of:1998
Population Total:453490

Gulberg Town (Sindhi and Urdu: {{nq|گلبرگ) lies in the northern part of the city. Gulberg Town was formed in 2001 as part of The Local Government Ordinance 2001, and was subdivided into 11 union councils. The town system was disbanded in 2011,[1] and Gulberg Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Central District in 2015 and the Karachi Towns were restored in early 2022.[2]

Location

Gulberg Town was bordered by the Lyari River and Gulshan Town to the east and the Gujjar Nala stream and North Nazimabad Town to the west. Also neighbouring Gulberg were New Karachi and Gadap to the north and Liaquatabad to the south.

History

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 Gulberg 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, Gulberg Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Central district.[3] It is worth mentioning that Aisha Manzil was the name of a single story bungalow that that was built in late sixties just opposite the road where Arshi cinema was built later on.

Education and academia

Apart from the socio-economic diversification, this town had the distinction of being one of the most literate middle/upper middle class parts of the city along with North Nazimabad Town. There were numerous coaching centres in Gulberg Town, among them C.A.M.P. Collegiate is one of the famous coaching centre which is located in Block 10, Federal.B.Area.

"Markaz-e-Umeed" (The Hope Center) is one of the oldest schools for intellectually disabled children in Pakistan, established in 1971.

Hospitals

Neighbourhoods

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Gayer, Laurent. Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City. 2014. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-935444-3. en.
  2. News: Division of Karachi into 26 towns, 233 UCs notified (by the government). Tahir Siddiqui. 2022-01-08. Dawn (newspaper). en-US. 2023-01-19.
  3. Web site: Gulberg Town. dead. 19 January 2023. 13 June 2006. City District Government of Karachi website. https://web.archive.org/web/20060613010757/http://karachicity.gov.pk/town/index.asp?txtTown=Gulberg.