THE ROLE OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN DISASTER: AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE

India is country of huge population and many problematic like earth quick, flood, drought,thunderstorm, cyclone, tsunami, volcano, and Winter Storm natural calamities and terrorist attacks, soeven government is also failure in some situation to manage the circumstances.Unexpected natural disasters cause incalculable loss of property and lives worldwide everyyear. In recently 2013, uttarakhand's natural calamity and flood were swollen 5780 innocent pilgrimsdied without any intimation some time we fail to control the situation but at least post-calamity we canmanage the conditions by handling the position carefully and cleverly.This study investigates supply chain management (SCM) related issues in disastermanagement such as evacuation (transportation routing), information management, supply and disasterrelief issues. The purpose of this study is to help with disaster management by applying SCM knowledgeand technology in business world to improve evacuation efficiency, quick response to emergent demandetc. Several suggestions concerning the strategies to prepare and response to unexpected disasters areproposed.