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Case 12: Children of God: Corona Warriors

In: Strategic Human Resource Management and Employment Relations

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  • Malavika Desai

    (King’s College)

  • Divisha Agarwal

    (University of Allahabad)

Abstract

When the first COVID positive case was reported in April 2020 in the densely populated Dharavi locality in Mumbai, India, health professionals warned that the situation could very quickly balloon into a catastrophe. Much to everyone’s panic, the infection had spread indeed. However, in about 2 months, one of Asia’s largest slums had made a dramatic U-turn from being on the brink of a collapse to a potential template of best practices which could be adopted in the fight against the novel coronavirus. The man helming the battle was Kiran Dighavkar, Assistant Commissioner at Mumbai’s municipality. As it was impossible to socially distance residents who are crammed together in tiny spaces, the approach was to proactively ‘chase the virus’ (Ganesan 2020) instead of waiting for cases to come to the authorities. Till mid June 2020, Dighavkar’s team had checked temperature and oxygen levels of 47,500 households and screened almost 700,00 people in the congested dwelling since the first case appeared (Pandya 2020). The initiatives seemed to have borne fruit.

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  • Malavika Desai & Divisha Agarwal, 2022. "Case 12: Children of God: Corona Warriors," Springer Texts in Business and Economics, in: Ashish Malik (ed.), Strategic Human Resource Management and Employment Relations, edition 2, pages 309-318, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sptchp:978-3-030-90955-0_28
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90955-0_28
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