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If proper disaster management system is in place then it is easier to understand the demand supply situations that can happen in different parts of the country during the various disasters. The planning can be defined as three stage process. The first stage will be demand and supply planning.

The next one will be the coordination process. In this stage various issues typical of disaster management comes into picture like inventory management, logistics, base station and coordination structure and hierarchy. The third process in planning is the review of the decisions taken in accordance with the previous experiences and unique nature of each situation.

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* Contributed by: -
Anshuman Harjai & Ibin Issac Abraham,
Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.