Lack of planning and preparedness - Even for disasters with forewarning, the government has no proactive measures planned with respect to evacuation of cities/towns.

Lack of centralized coordination - There is no single entity which does the coordination of the entire relief work. This results in duplications of efforts from government and external aid agencies/NGOs.

Lack of information systems - With a lot of manual procedures being involved, information regarding the relief work cannot be easily shared amongst the entities involved.

Lack of tracking and tracing of supplies - Due to the lack of effective tracking and tracing systems, it is difficult to determine whether the supplies are enough to meet the demand of relief materials. Without tracing of these supplies, it is also tough to predict the response times of the relief efforts.

Lack of trained logisticians - The relief cannot reach the interior parts of the country due to the lack of trained logisticians as the government only attempts to get the aid to the district centers.

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* Contributed by: -
Varun Gupta & Naresh Mahadevan,
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.