Leadership in Crisis: The Mumbai Model for covid management
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Jul.2021
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The metropolis of Mumbai is the capital of the Indian State of Maharashtra. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second-most inhabited city in the country after Delhi and the seventh-most inhabited city in the world, with a population of roughly 20 million. According to the 2011 census, the population of Mumbai city was 12,479,608. The population density is calculated to be 20,482 persons per square kilometer, with living space at 4.5 sqm per person. The total number of slum-dwellers is calculated to be nine million, up from six million in 2001, so 62 percent of all Mumbaikars (inhabitants of Mumbai) live in informal slums. Looking at that kind of densification in the city, particularly in slums, it becomes difficult to manage any type of calamity, disaster, or pandemic.Just as in the rest of India, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged Mumbai. As of June 29, 2021, Mumbai has had 721,516 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with a death toll of 15,426. But those numbers could have been much worse had it not been for the Mumbai Model, a series of initiatives taken by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai's top civic body, under the leadership of City Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal.
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Public Management Magazine, ICMA