PRESENTATION ON ORANGI PILOT

PROJECT

BY

MIR HUSSAIN ALI

DISTRICT COORDINATION OFFICER
CITY DISTRICT GOVERNMENT
KARACHI
KARACHI
CITY

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 PROFILE OF THE CITY

• Area 2600 sq.km

• No of Ports 2
• Population 11.69 m
Male 6.288 m Female 5.398 m
• Literacy Rate 65.3%
• No. Of Industrial Estates 7
• Towns 18
• Union Councils 178
• Cantonment Boards 6
 CITY DISTRICT GOVERNMENT KARACHI
• City Nazim Head of the City Government

• District Coordination Officer Head of the District

Administration
• Groups of offices

1. Works & Services 9. Finance & Planning

2. Education 10. Health
3. Literacy 11. Enterprise & investment
Promotion
4. Revenue 12. Information Tech.
5. Sanitation & Water 13. Master Plan
6. Agriculture 14. Transport & Ccm.
7. Coordination 15. Law
8. Community Development
FUNCTIONS OF THE TOWN MUNICIPAL
ADMINISTRATION

• Land use, zoning and functions

• Enforcement of Municipal Laws
• To prevent and remove encroachments
• Maintain comprehensive database and information system
• Propose and collect taxes, cesses, user fees, rates, rents,
tolls, charges, levies, fines and penalties
• Provide, manage, operate, maintain and improve the
municipal infrastructure and services including:
a. Water supply distribution other than inherited systems
maintained by or on behalf of the City District;
b. Sewerage system other than an integrated system maintained by
on behalf of City District excluding sewerage treatment and
disposal;
c. Solid waste collection and conveyance to transfer stations
designated by the Town but excluding treatment and disposal
of waste;
d. Street lighting;
e. Fire fighting; and Parks, playgrounds, open spaces and
arboriculture, other than major facility maintained by the City
District;
g. Slaughter houses.
 BUDGET AT A GLANCE
SANITATION & WATER DEPARTMENT
RECEIPTS & EXPENDITURE STATEMENT BUDGET 2003-2004
(Rupees in millions)

1 CURRENT RECEIPTS EXPENDITURE

WATER CHARGES 2,639.119 CURRENT EXPENDITURE 2,959.119

SEWERAGE CHARGES 320.000

SUB TOTAL: 2,959.119

2 CAPITAL RECEIPTS CAPITAL EXPENDITURE 2,057.688

(GOVT. AIDED PROJECTS) 2,057.688

(DEVELOPMENT WORKS GOVT.AIDED)

TOTAL RECEIPTS 5,016.807 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 5,016.807

 ORANGI PILOT PROJECT
• Orangi Pilot Project was initiated in 1980 by Akhtar
Hameed Khan
• Informal settlements in Orangi Town were the
project areas having a population of 1.2 m
• Social preparation of community
• Identification of existing local community organizations
• Reliance on existing resources and systems
• Differentiation of internal and external infrastructure
components and their sharing
• Selection of local lane leaders and activists
• Training of social organizers and technicians selected
from the community
• Utilizing traditional knowledge for improvisation
and innovation
• Operational Principles

• Projects not physically executed

• Provide technical advise and support social
organization
• Support smaller and functional community
organization
• Self-financing of internal components by
community
• Economical improvisation
PROBLEM THAT MOBILIZED PEOPLE
COMMUNITIES ORGANIZE THEMSELVES
PEOPLE’S EFFORTS
IMPORTANT FEATURES OF ORANGI
PILOT PROJECT

• Total No of Houses 104,917

• Total No of Lanes 7,256
• Lanes provided with Sanitation System 6,306
• Number of houses served 94,746
•Number of collector sewers 421
•Peoples investment in sanitation 88.26 m
•Resultantly infant mortality rate has fallen from 128 to
37 during the period ( 1983-1993) owing to better
sanitation system
 CONCLUSION

The Orangi Pilot Project experience is

certainly an outstanding example of
community participation which can be
emulated not only in other cities of Pakistan
but in other countries too.