A dimly-lit room and two tents on the Police Control Room lawns here—this is J-K’s Disaster Management Cell for Uri and Tangdhar. Inside the room, four men are huddled around a laptop, including Nodal Officer, B A Runiyal. And the conversation is not about the quake that killed more than 1,300 people but the movie they are watching on the laptop.‘‘This is a good movie,’’ Runiyal tells his colleagues. ‘‘It has won seven awards but nobody knows about it here.’’Then he turns to give a long list of relief material sent—5,000 tents, 9,000 blankets, seven truckloads of fruit, 4,000 food packets .for more than 1,50,000 people.There is no communication set-up in the ‘‘restricted entry’’ office—no satellite phones, landlines or wireless sets. All they have is a cellphone, which has no network in the affected areas.‘‘We are using the police communication set-up,’’ says Runiyal. ‘‘This is a joint effort by police and civil administration and is headed by the Divisional Commissioner. We don’t have a specially trained force. We don’t have the machinery,’’ he says.The office has a staff strength of 20. And their only job: maintain records. ‘‘They maintain records of receipts and dispatches and react to information,’’ says Runiyal.
