Media Eye May 23, 2021Rare is it for a municipal chief to become the toast of a country fighting a national crisis. The position ranks relatively mid-level in the National power hierarchy, and is a distant outpost of governance framework from the central authority. So much so Iqbal Singh Chahal’s success in tackling the Covid surge in Mumbai, one of the world’s most densely populated cities, offers a textbook case of leadership that must be made compulsory reading for lawmakers and people in positions of authority.
