Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, today inaugurated the SEOC at the Old Assembly Secretariat complex.
The SEOC'S role is to provide a central location from which the government at any level can provide inter-agency coordination and prompt executive decision making for effective incident response.
Meanwhile, the chief minister today laid the foundation stone of the first-ever Nagaland Medical College and Tertiary Cancer Hospital at Phriebagie under Kohima village.
The college will come up on 145 acres of land at a projected cost of Rs 189-crore while a budget of Rs 45-crore has been set up for the Cancer Hospital.