Gadap Town

Gadap Town (Sindhi: گڏاپ ٽائون‎, Urdu: گڈاپ ٹاؤن ‎) was a Karachi borough in the northern part of the city that was named after the suburban area of Gadap. Gadap Town was formed in 2001 as part of The Local Government Ordinance 2001, and was subdivided into 8 union councils. The town system was disbanded in 2011,[1] and Gadap Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Malir District in 2015.

This article is about the defunct administrative unit that existed between 2001 and 2011. For the locality in northern Karachi, see Gadap.

Gadap Town


گڈاپ ٹاؤن
Constituent Town of Karachi
Gadap Town was divided into 8 Union Councils
CountryPakistan
ProvinceSindh
City DistrictKarachi
Established14 August 2001
Disbanded2011
Union Councils8
Government
 • TypeTown Council
Population
 (1998)
 • Total289,564
office locationTown Municipal Administration Gadap, Old MDA office, Memon Goth, Malir, Karachi 75320
WebsiteGadap Town Page

History

The federal government under Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup d'etat, 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, and the merging of its five districts to form a new Karachi City-District with eighteen autonomous constituent towns including Gadap 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, Gadap Town was re-organized as part of Karachi Malir district.

Location

Gadap Town was in the northwestern part of Karachi with the Hub River on its western limits also forming the provincial border between Sindh and Balochistan, while to the north and east were Jamshoro District and the Kirthar Mountains.

There over 400 rural villages in Gadap Town.[2]

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See also


References
  1. Abbasi, Saeed (10 July 2011). "Karachi's district status restored, notification issued". The News Tribe. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  2. 357 villages in Gadap don’t have electricity http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=173095

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