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Kurien is in control of the warroom, monitoring the developments at every second.The control room is being monitored by chief secretary’s office just under 10 metres away. On Indipendence Day, as the rains were lashing across the state with all fury, the secretariat was functioning almost like on any working day. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Two command and control arms of the government — the main control room functioning at the secretariat and the state police monitoring room functioning under intelligence division of the state police — is working round-the-clock for information gathering, dissemination and rescue operations.The main control room-—room number 372 in the main block of the secretariat, is the office of additional chief secretary (revenue) P H Kurien. As per the data of the SPMR till 12 pm on Thursday, there are almost 1, 21, 000 people in 1,024 relief camps across the state. Towards one side of the square-shaped room is a miniconference table where the whole of the disaster management unit led by member secretary Sekhar Kuriakose is stationed with their laptops, mobile and landline phones..