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Mumbai’s BMC has gained praises from all over for effectively controlling the Covid-surge in the city. “Bombay Municipal Corporation has done some remarkable work and not disrespecting Delhi but we can maybe see what was done by BMC,” Justice Chandrachud said.
Court has said that Delhi government should learn from BMC to tackle the Covid cases. Now, one might wonder as to why Mumbai is handling its second wave better than Delhi. The report in the international weekly newspaper The Economist has credited the “sensible administrative structure, decentralisation and data-driven planning” for the same.
The article has noted that the coordinated efforts through a distributed network of 23 BMC war rooms have led to efficient bed management.
While explaining about the difference in the handling of the second wave by Delhi and Mumbai authorities, it mentioned that the unified chain of command in Mumbai contrasting to overlapping authorities in Delhi led to better management in the case of Mumbai.
In the case of Delhi, the article noted that Delhi’s disadvantages may be because of its neighbours. “The city spills over its borders to take in the most urbanised bits of two states with much worse health care,” the article noted while elaborating on the effect of the influx of patients from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to Delhi.
