Disaster Preparedness using IT Tools: Case Studies on the use of ICT and GIS Derived tools for Micro-Level Drought Preparedness Sreedhar Ganapuram #1 , R Nagarajan *2 , V Ramnaresh Kumar #3 , N Lavanya #4 , Asil Gerard Sylvester #5 , V. Balaji #6 # ICRISAT, Patancheru 502 324 AP, India 1 g.sreedhar@cgiar.org 3 v.ramnaresh@cgiar.org 4 n.lavanyakiran@cgiar.org 5 a.sylvester@cgiar.org 6 v.balaji@cgiar.org(Corresponding author) * Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai 400016, India 2 rn@iitb.ac.in