Even before the cyclone made landfall, Ministers M.C. Sampath (Industries), R. Kamaraj (Food), O.S. Manian (Textiles), C. Vijaya Baskar (Health), R. Doraikkannu (Agriculture) and M. Manikandan (Information Technology), who are natives of these districts, have been camping there.Senior IPS officers Shakeel Akhtar, Thamaraikannan, Ravi and C. Sylendra Babu have been instructed by the Chief Minister to coordinate policing in Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur districts and railway premises respectively.The State Emergency Operations Centre in the Ezhilagam complex kept track of the developments all through the day with Commissioner of Revenue Administration K. Satyagopal and Disaster Management Commissioner Rajendra Ratnoo coordinating relief operations with various agencies in the affected districts.
