MUMBAI SHOWS THE WAY
On the night of April 16, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai’s apex civic body, found itself severely tested. Six hospitals under its management were in danger of running out of oxygen, putting the lives of 168 patients at risk. From 1 am that night till 5 am the next morning, under municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal, the BMC worked to arrange cardiac ambulances to shift the patients to different hospitals across the city. At a routine meeting the next day, Chahal—a 1989 batch IAS official with a reputation as a tough administrator—sounded palpably relieved to announce that not a single
