City District Government Karachi

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CDGK
City District Government Karachi
SuccessorSPLGO 2013
Formation2001
Founder Pervez Musharraf
Dissolved2010
Legal statusDefunct
Headquarters Civic Center, Karachi
Budget (2009-10)
Rs. 51 Billion
WebsiteCdgk.gov.pk (deactivated)

The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) was a local government of Karachi, Pakistan. It was established through a local government ordinance (LGO) in 2000, which also established various other district governments in Pakistan. It was headed by the mayor and was formed under the presidential rule of Pervez Musharraf in 2001. CDGK existed until 2010.

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CDGK became a major authority in the city and was granted unprecedented power. Urban authority was emphasized and rural authority was disbanded. The CDGK was a three-tier system, with each tier having its respective nazims and naib nazims (mayors and deputy mayors), and it oversaw a major increase in development.

In 2012, the Sindh government decided that the development projects first undertaken by the CDGK would be carried out by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC). [1]

Background

On October 12, 1999, Pervez Musharraf imposed martial law and set up the National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) which was tasked with designing a new local government system in Pakistan. The LGO was enacted in 2000, and in 2001, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) was accorded the status of City District Government Karachi. According to SLGO in 2001: [2]

It is expedient to devolve political power and decentralize administrative and financial authority to accountable local governments for good governance, effective delivery of services, and transparent decision-making through institutionalized participation of the people at the grassroots level.

— Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2001 (SLGO)

For the first time in the history of Pakistan, a district government decentralized authority to the local level.

Administration

CDGK consisted of a three-tiered setup. Tier 1 was the City council of KMC; Tier 2 was the 18 Tehsil Municipal Administrations (TMA); and Tier 3 was the 178 union councils (UCs). The previous five-district setup was merged into the single district of Karachi. The KMC under CDGK had 255 members elected through popular elections of the UCs. The heads of these UCs then elected their mayor and deputy mayor. [3] [4]

Towns of CDGK
Baldia Town Liaquatabad
Bin Qasim Lyari Town
Gadap Malir
Gulberg New Karachi
Gulshan Orangi
Jamshed Town Saddar Town
Kemari Shah Faisal
Korangi SITE
Landhi Town North Nazimabad

Authority

The mayor controlled a large number of municipal powers and portfolios and his responsibilities included, but were not limited to: [5]

...intra-city or intra-town or Taluka network of water supply, sanitation, conservancy, removal and disposal of sullage, refuse, garbage, sewer or stormwater, solid or liquid waste, drainage, public toilets, expressways bridges, flyovers, public roads, streets, footpaths, traffic signals, pavements and lighting thereof, public parks, gardens, arboriculture, landscaping, billboards, hoardings, firefighting, land use control, zoning, master planning, classification, declassification or reclassification of commercial or residential areas, markets, housing, urban or rural infrastructure, environment and construction, maintenance or development thereof and enforcement of any law or rule relating thereto

— Sindh Local Government Ordinance, 2001

The Mayor held one-third of the land control of Karachi. The rest was under the control of other bodies including the Government of Sindh—the federal government that had strong institutional presence independent of the district government—the CAA, railways, Cantonments), steel mills and the Karachi port trust, which each had their own regulations despite being required to coordinate with CDGK. [4]

Initiatives

Traffic Wardens

Due to a lack of traffic police and the need to manage the traffic of the city, the mayors introduced 1,575 traffic wardens. The system was dissolved when the 2001 LGO was scrapped by Sindh government. [6]

Urban Transport System (UTS) / CNG Green Bus

The first city government under Naimatullah Khan allowed the private sector to purchase imported, wide-bodied Compressed natural gas (CNG) buses. The purchase was given a subsidy of 6%, a federal government waiver on import duty and sales tax, and a 70% loan markup financed by the banks.

According to the plan, the city needed 8,000 buses to replace aging, pollutant vehicles and improve Karachi's public transport infrastructure. Initially, 300-350 buses were purchased, but 40% of the vehicles ended up in other locations.

A pilot project was initiated during the tenure of Mustafa Kamal. High operating costs (caused by the high diesel price and unavailability of compressed natural gas), insufficient revenue, lack of funding by the city government after two years, failure to maintain the buses, and inability to secure a loan contributed to the failure of the project. [7] [8] Only 12 buses from this project remain operable, mainly on Shahrah-e-Faisal.

There have been calls for the revival of CDGK. [9]

Departments

Various departments were transferred to the KMC to streamline the local body system.:[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Imdad, Soomro (2012-01-03). "'KMC to carry on where CDGK left off'". pakistantoday.com.pk.
  2. ↑ Jamal, Rashid (July 2019). "Comparative Analysis of Municipal Powers in Karachi". Pakistan Perspectives. Rochester, NY. 24 (2). SSRN   3653110.
  3. ↑ Local and City Government Handbook Province of Sindh and Karachi city (PDF). USAID. 2018. p. 16.
  4. 1 2 Hassan, Arif; Pervaiz, Arif; Rahman, Perween (1 August 2008). "Lessons from Karachi:the role of demonstration, documentation, mapping and relationship building in advocacy for improved urban sanitation and water services". JSTOR   resrep01258.5.
  5. ↑ The Sindh Local Government Ordinance, 2001 pp:9
  6. ↑ Hassan, Arif; Raza, Mansoor (July 2005). "Responding to the transport crisis in Karachi". International Institute for Environment and Development. JSTOR   resrep01313.
  7. ↑ "CDGK reneges on introducing new CNG buses – Business Recorder" . Retrieved 2020-09-20.
  8. ↑ Hasan, Arif; Raza, Mansoor (July 2015). Responding to the transport crisis in Karachi Appendices. London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
  9. ↑ Ilyas, Faiza (2020-09-26). "'Solution to Karachi's problems lies in financially autonomous local govt'". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
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