Gulberg Town, Karachi Explained

Gulberg Town
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:Shafiq Colony
Samanabad
Water Pump
Naseerabad
Yaseenabad
Azizabad
Karimabad
Gulberg
Government Type:Government of Karachi
Leader Title:Town Chaiman
Leader Name:Nusrat Ullah
Established Title:Established
Established Date:14 August 2001
Area Total Km2:14
Elevation M:36
Population As Of:2023 Pakistani census
Population Total:613,724
Population Density Km2:43837.43
Timezone1:PKT
Utc Offset1:+05:00
Timezone1 Dst:DST is not observed
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code
Postal Code:75950
Area Code Type:NWD (area) code
Area Code:021

Gulberg Town (Sindhi and ur|{{nq|گلبرگ) lies in the northern part of Karachi, Pakistan. 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]

Demographics

There are 613,724 people in Gulberg Subdivision of which 502,002 spoke Urdu, 26,576 Pashto, 21,243 Punjabi, 15,542 Saraiki, 13,310 Sindhi & 35,051 others

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.

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

Hospitals

Neighbourhoods

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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.