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6.4 Site Operations Centre and Relief Camps
6.4.1 Planning Assumptions
Section VI : Institutional Arrangements at the District Level
A small scale disaster can be managed through Collector’s office without comprehensive
desk arrangements at the DCR.
A Disaster affecting
• a number of villages
• doing considerable damage to housing
• spread geographically over a large area and different locations
6.4.2 Site Operations Centre
⇒ creates problems of management and logistics
⇒ Decentralisation of relief activities will improve the efficiency of
DCR. This will require organisation of desk arrangements at the
camp sites.
⇒ Site Operations Centre and location of Relief Camps will ensure
effective decentralisation and organisation of relief activities.
Depending on the nature of disaster and the type of damage, it may be necessary to set-up a
number of relief camps and/or cattle camps.
• In such a situation, the DDM may decide to set-up a Site Operations Centre to reduce the
pressure on DCR for field coordination.
• Depending on the disaster locations and the number of camp sites, the DDM may decide
to set-up more than one Site Operations Centre.
• The Site Operation Centre and the camps would be wound up after the relief and
rehabilitation work is called off or after the relief camps and cattle camps are dismantled
whichever is later.
• The activities for the Site Operations Centre are given in Table III.
• The Site Operations Centre will be managed by Site Manager of the rank of Sub-
Divisional Officer/Deputy Collector.
It may be noted that a coordinating structure of this type may have many areas of overlap
with the DCR and therefore the activities need not be duplicated. The basic functions of the
Site Operations Centre will be to facilitate communication and coordination between DCR
and the camp sites. A skeleton structure as given in Table II should be able to perform these
tasks.
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