PRESENTATION ON ORANGI PILOT PROJECT

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MIR HUSSAIN ALI DISTRICT COORDINATION OFFICER CITY DISTRICT GOVERNMENT KARACHI

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AK P CITY KARACHI

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.