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To what extent would Covid-19 yield space for urban bodies to run cities?

Cities are setting the rules that now carry life and death implications for their residents, and most of these rules are sought to be set by the municipal authorities, who have never wielded such powe

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee | New Delhi Last Updated at July 1, 2020 22:36 IST

Tukaram Mundhe, the Municipal Commissioneragar of Nagpur in Maharashtra, sits at a “war room” every day with his medical officials to track measures to block the spread of Covid-19 pandemic in the city. Nagpur has opted for institutional quarantine for any one who tests positive and that means more monitoring. “We did it in March itself, when we found it was impossible to make people sit at home.

Putting them in our care has broken the chain of transmission, though the ICMR guidelines only asked for home quarantine,” he says. The city has managed to keep case ...

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To what extent would Covid-19 yield space for urban bodies to run cities?

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