SRISTI's Initiatives for Relief in Kutch:

SRISTI participated in relief operations immediately  after the earthquake affected most of Gujarat and particularly Kutch. SRISTI immediately rushed a relief team to Kutch and mobilized support, financial as well as material for quake affected people. 

SRISTI & IIMACORE team Visit to Kutch:

Prof. Anil K Gupta along with other NGO's & members of IIMACORE working in the relief work took a trip to the affected areas and visited Bhuj, Rapar & Bachao. Prof. Gupta shared his first hand observation of the situation and visualized the rehabilitation plan for the affected area at a lecture in Ahmedabad Management Association.   

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SRISTI Relief Team:

SRISTI's was amongst the first team to reach Kutch. This advance team took up the initiative to setup camp and help build up the relief center in Nilpar village of Rapar Taluka. The center for relief activity was developed at "Gram Swaraj Sangh" a Gandhian Institute. From this center the team provided medical treatment & distributed relief material to the affected people in Rapar Taluka. The team also started an effort to collect data for damage assessment in the area and tried to establish co-ordination between various NGO's and medical teams that arrived at this center.

Coordination in Rapar from Nilpar:  

Through the efforts of Mr. Kapil Shah & Mr. Ramesh Sangavi Director, of Gandhian Institute "Gram Swarajaya Sangh" proper co-ordination have been worked out with various NGO’s, which have made the Institute as the base for relief work in Rapar taluka. The team coordinated with the institute and other NGO’s in providing relief supplies and provided medical, food grain, shelter, blanket support to 10 villages in the area. Another more crucial thing that we initiated in the area was coordination with all NGO’s to do a damage assessment exercise in the area so as to know how much supplies are needed in the area. A questionnaire was designed and circulated through all the NGO teams to collect data relating to the basic facility, medical requirement (post operative care), food and shelter requirement, human mortality, cattle mortality property damage, fodder requirement etc. This information is crucial for three things:

• Compensation to the victims for – human deaths cattle death, property damage

• Basic requirements of the area and long term planning for reconstruction efforts

• To negotiate with the govt. to provide the required need to the affected people

The team visited ten villages and surveyed as per the format as mentioned above to do a damage assessment in the area and prepared assessment report.

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SRISTI Relief Team: First team replace by second team

A second team of SRISTI replaced the first team and established its camp in Nilpar. This team took over the Shodhyatra route (Shodhyatra-II) and tried to asses the damage in the villages in which people had been part of the Honey Bee Network. After this assessment some of the relief material being collected with the support of IIMACORE community was also diverted there.

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Resource Mobilization:

SRISTI mobilized several teams of doctors from, Bangalore, St. Stephens New Delhi etc, HAM radio operators, volunteers, structural engineers, seismologists, experts from CSIR Institutes. SRISTI staff was involved in direct relief work as well as provided support both material, resources, computers etc to IIMACORE control center.

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